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I have been occasionally asked what the biggest difference is between how I see the world and how I think everyone else sees it, and the answer I tend to give is “I have a much less static sense of the boundaries of selfhood.” Let me try to make that somewhat precise. The first thing is, I’ve slowly come to believe people absorb a lot from their environment. Music changes the tone of a conversation - this is most obvious when a playlist abruptly shifts genre. People’s interactions are affected by their relative position - distance and height, for instance. Lighting, the size of the space, the clothes that people wear. The easiest part is observing how these cues affect interpersonal dynamics. The next step is playing with them. First you do it statically: you craft your room for the event you want to have. Dim lights and gentle instrumental music while people gather in a circle on the ground. But it’s also possible to be dynamic: When I was in college, sometimes I would go on long, win

Free Will And Concentric Identity | Raymond’s Weblog^ Raymond's Weblog^ Free Will And Concentric Identity I have been occasionally asked what the biggest difference is between how I see the world and how I think everyone else sees it, and the answer I tend to give is “I have a much less static sense of the boundaries of selfhood.” Let me try to make that somewhat precise. The first thing is, I’ve slowly come to believe people absorb a lot from their environment. Music changes the tone of a conversation - this is most obvious when a playlist abruptly shifts genre. People’s interactions are affe

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