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		reb on Sept 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Strid: The ‘deadliest stretch of water’ Either we’re all living in your dream (not terribly likely from my perspective) or you’ve stumbled upon one of life’s great joys: the so-called “delusion of reference”, a fun trick our minds like to play on us sometimes. Congrats on your unsettling coincidence :)

morpheos137 on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

Delusions of reference should be statistically verifiable as delusions. Has anybody ever tried?

For starters how many thoughts does a typical human have in a day?

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