How much time does it take you to make these presentations? Are all the images made by AI, or do you draw some of them by hand? Thank you for Excalidraw and these awesome presentations!
Time is hard to estimate since I cannot separate the time it takes to not just read but also understand the article from the time it takes to create only the illustrations. The act of coming up with the visual representations heavily overlaps with the act of understanding. The illustrations you see on this overview come from four sources. Some of them I created, the icons I downloaded from flaticon, the Tiananmen square photo is a real photo from the time, and there are many AI (Midjourney) generated pictures. However, many of these visuals were already in my Obsidian Vault since I've used them in other illustrations as earlier, as such you could say that is the fifth source, icons, pictures, illustrations already in my notes that I reuse (and by act of reuse create links and connections between my notes). The total net time for this all is roughly an entire (16 hour) day, but that includes also reading some of the referenced articles and doing research of my own.
I think that everything we see through the eyes is visual. I think it's an evolutionary benefit to be able to see and acknowledge the predator before it strikes. Even words on a page or screen are visual first, then we recognise the shapes as characters then words. But we see the shapes first. If we don't understand the shapes then that second step doesn't happen. So it's not surprising that they claim our minds process visual information quicker than other forms. Also visual information comes into our brains much faster than any other kind of information. Interpretation comes later and more slowly.
I agree visual is an important import, but IMHO 90% or even 70% is a gross over estimation. What about sounds, smell, touch, bodily sensations, heat, etc.? In The Extended Mind Annie Murphy Paul makes the argument that thinking happens in our entire body and our environment. I tend to agree with her and think that while words and images are important, attaching a large value as percentage of importance/weight somehow misses the truth.
@@VisualPKM hard to argue with that. Thinking about it in terms of bandwidth though, (i'm an engineer) visual information must need the greatest bandwidth. Sensations through other means i would expect to be lower. So it seems natural for the brain to assign more "CPU" to processing visual information than the other senses. I'm sure there must be a picture somewhere of the relative sizes of the various parts of the brain that process sensory input. Of course the body has more sensors of the other kinds whereas we just normally have the two eyes. Maybe in aggregate, the brain gets more input from the other senses than sight. I don't know, but it's interesting. The size of the brain seems to be more to do with procssing sensory input than it does intellectual thinking. An elephant or whale has a much bigger brain than a human does but does not seem to be much more intelligent. As far as we know.
The 13ms thing is interesting. If you watch a video at 60 frames per second which is a typical rate, you see one frame appproximately every 16ms. But you do see every frame. I beleive this is how subliminal advertising was meant to work. They flashed up an advert for a single frame and though we might not be conscious of it, we are still are affected by it.
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How much time does it take you to make these presentations? Are all the images made by AI, or do you draw some of them by hand? Thank you for Excalidraw and these awesome presentations!
Time is hard to estimate since I cannot separate the time it takes to not just read but also understand the article from the time it takes to create only the illustrations. The act of coming up with the visual representations heavily overlaps with the act of understanding. The illustrations you see on this overview come from four sources. Some of them I created, the icons I downloaded from flaticon, the Tiananmen square photo is a real photo from the time, and there are many AI (Midjourney) generated pictures. However, many of these visuals were already in my Obsidian Vault since I've used them in other illustrations as earlier, as such you could say that is the fifth source, icons, pictures, illustrations already in my notes that I reuse (and by act of reuse create links and connections between my notes).
The total net time for this all is roughly an entire (16 hour) day, but that includes also reading some of the referenced articles and doing research of my own.
I think that everything we see through the eyes is visual. I think it's an evolutionary benefit to be able to see and acknowledge the predator before it strikes. Even words on a page or screen are visual first, then we recognise the shapes as characters then words. But we see the shapes first. If we don't understand the shapes then that second step doesn't happen. So it's not surprising that they claim our minds process visual information quicker than other forms. Also visual information comes into our brains much faster than any other kind of information. Interpretation comes later and more slowly.
I agree visual is an important import, but IMHO 90% or even 70% is a gross over estimation. What about sounds, smell, touch, bodily sensations, heat, etc.? In The Extended Mind Annie Murphy Paul makes the argument that thinking happens in our entire body and our environment. I tend to agree with her and think that while words and images are important, attaching a large value as percentage of importance/weight somehow misses the truth.
@@VisualPKM hard to argue with that. Thinking about it in terms of bandwidth though, (i'm an engineer) visual information must need the greatest bandwidth. Sensations through other means i would expect to be lower. So it seems natural for the brain to assign more "CPU" to processing visual information than the other senses. I'm sure there must be a picture somewhere of the relative sizes of the various parts of the brain that process sensory input. Of course the body has more sensors of the other kinds whereas we just normally have the two eyes. Maybe in aggregate, the brain gets more input from the other senses than sight. I don't know, but it's interesting. The size of the brain seems to be more to do with procssing sensory input than it does intellectual thinking. An elephant or whale has a much bigger brain than a human does but does not seem to be much more intelligent. As far as we know.
The 13ms thing is interesting. If you watch a video at 60 frames per second which is a typical rate, you see one frame appproximately every 16ms. But you do see every frame. I beleive this is how subliminal advertising was meant to work. They flashed up an advert for a single frame and though we might not be conscious of it, we are still are affected by it.
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