the common sensation is probably that viewing stuff on TV is viewing something external, there it is the box for your entertainment etc. Moving images with accompanying sound.

of course we get immersed, try I suppose if one wants. Indulge it some.

but isn’t viewing TV really (mostly) made possible by the mind’s internal projection system. What minds do sort of all the time, regular every day stuff, and imagination (that imagined) too.

sitting there though with no audience would it still be a TV (if that’s really imaginable).

I think 99%(don’t take that figure too literally) of TV is really internal projection. TV’s not mostly outside your head, it’s mostly in your head, otherwise it wouldn’t work (like it doesn’t work for my dog larry).

so there’re these perceptual apparatus and cognitive tools, lot’s done in a flash, some requires applying the mind tools(effort).

my view is there isn’t much on TV really.

transition said:

my view is there isn’t much on TV really.

If it is on, it is only for background noise.

There was a time back in perhaps 1966 when TV was shown to me, I thought here is the greatest educational tool. If only mankind will use it the way I saw its potential.
Knowing that this wouldn’t happen, didn’t stir ambition.

Well, yes and no.

You can watch TV mindlessly, or you can watch it with interest which stimulates imagination, thinking and cognizance. There is some evidence that children’s television programmes are good for stimulating learning (depending on the show; Dora the Explorer is often cited as a good ‘learning’ programme).

Mindless TV is probably better at stimulating internal projection, as you put it.

>Mindless TV is probably better at stimulating internal projection, as you put it.

where I was going, was that it didn’t feature in the ancestral environment, there’s no specialized mental whatever for dealing with it, and it sorta hijacks a bunch of workings for other things.

was getting at it hijacks the internal projector (the internal big screen) involved in self-awareness (consciousness).

my dog doesn’t enjoy TV at all, not interested. So sorta from that and other things I see i’d say TV is mostly in our heads.

I don’t watch TV.

I don’t watch TV now.

dv said:

I don’t watch TV now.

I very rarely watch TV at 13:19:28 in the afternoon either.

I’ve been known to spend 11 hours a day watching TV, and I mean really watching it not just having it on as background noise.

I strongly suspect that nobody would watch TV if it didn’t flicker at 25 to 30 frames per second. An experiment needs to be done to confirm or refute that.

mollwollfumble said:

I’ve been known to spend 11 hours a day watching TV, and I mean really watching it not just having it on as background noise.

I strongly suspect that nobody would watch TV if it didn’t flicker at 25 to 30 frames per second. An experiment needs to be done to confirm or refute that.

I’ll volunteer if you prepare it.

Postpocelipse said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’ve been known to spend 11 hours a day watching TV, and I mean really watching it not just having it on as background noise.

I strongly suspect that nobody would watch TV if it didn’t flicker at 25 to 30 frames per second. An experiment needs to be done to confirm or refute that.

I’ll volunteer if you prepare it.

I’ll prepare it if I have either:
a) an MRI
or
b) a television repairman who can modify the frame rate.

mollwollfumble said:

Postpocelipse said:

mollwollfumble said:

I’ve been known to spend 11 hours a day watching TV, and I mean really watching it not just having it on as background noise.

I strongly suspect that nobody would watch TV if it didn’t flicker at 25 to 30 frames per second. An experiment needs to be done to confirm or refute that.

I’ll volunteer if you prepare it.

I’ll prepare it if I have either:
a) an MRI
or
b) a television repairman who can modify the frame rate.

Ok. Got this guy…..

… and I’m arranging an appointment with a neurologist. I’ll take a large carry bag and a small cosh. You have to be gentle with Dr’s. They are generally fragile.