Caitlin Thurn

Yeah, certainly.

I mean, it's interesting that so many of the Oxford Dons came back as not being able to visualize things similarly because it's actually something that's correlated with ADHD.

It's often an indicator that if you are somebody who has ADHD traits, then you struggle with that visualization process and it's not a way you tend to interpret things.

I mean, but the way the brain works just at the absolute most fundamental level, it's its pattern recognition.

So it's understanding and building from experience from the time you're born... ...until the time you stop paying attention to the world... ...that the world is patterns and things get repeated.

So in building that understanding of okay what would this feel like when I lick it... ...or not taste but actually feel like... ...there's not so many sensations that your tongue can actually perceive.

It's nowhere near as tactilely aware as your hands or your skin or anything...

because that's not its major job as a sensory organ, it's the taste organ.

So when you're thinking about licking something, there's just not that many different ways that you would be able to experience a surface.

So there's not that many patterns to need to remember.

Or there's not that many patterns that you need to become familiar with to be able to then understand and identify, oh, if I licked the surface of the table, it's going to feel smooth.

If I lick something that's

like a carpet other than finding dog hair on my tongue it's going to be fairly fluffy feeling so the brain building process of identifying those variety of patterns to then be able to apply that to this with how it would feel if I licked this thing it's just not that complex and just one thing I suddenly realized from working with grandchildren and little nieces if they're under the age of one everything goes in their mouth yes everything

Caitlin, anything to add here?

I mean, I will say that as to the actual experience of that, it may be 99 years to reach the end of the universe, which is strange that it feels a vaguely achievable human timeframe there.

That's a really cool number to know of.

But you personally in the rocket ship going that fast, you wouldn't experience the contraction because you're contracting yourself.

So that whole idea that what you experience in that moment is just...

kind of your normal.

Yeah, certainly.