the reason why 3D movies make so much money is because our brain is still a primal structure despite how much we've evolved. Though our minds have created advanced technologies, our brains can't process them. 3D technologies and advanced music production tickle novelty neurons in our brain & we are really stimulated by it!
It is such a great, but dense book. It's astonishing how long all of this research and organization must have taken the author.
Here's an interesting article I read today. It's about how Twitter and Facebook statuses have changed the way we live our moments and have created a merging of the private/public self, as well as the authentic/contrived self. We've evolved to think of moments not as our own, but how we want others to perceive what we're experiencing through updating statuses. Quite sad, but true.
I wonder, this is completely tangential, but when two people hang out a lot they become more and more similar, picking up each other's idiosyncrasies. Though, my parents and other people's parents are quite different from each other. I wonder how long the period lasts when two people become more similar, and when the breaking point occurs when they become different again. Is it a conscious or unconscious decision to become different? I know that in twin experiments, those who are reared together are more different than those reared apart because when they are together, their environment tells them to distinguish themselves from each other.. so maybe as people become more similar, they then perceive themselves to be a unit with the other and at that point they decide to highlight their own differences?
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