https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law

Schw-Schw-Schweeeelm?

Phosphene kriegt man auch, wenn man sich ein tACS okzipital drantut und laufen laesst.

Auch frontaler, manchmal, aber da sinds eher elektrisch stimulierte Lichtrezeptoren, statt Hirnzellen.

Lovecraft was especially racist by the standards of his time, though. https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1897rk2/was_lovecraft_racist_even_by_the_standards_of_his/

It's a pain perceiver where capsaicin activates it.

Our senses run on chemicals, and that means sometimes chemicals activate these senses. Capsaicin is similar to a different chemical that our bodies use as signal, and binds to the receptor instead.

You could imagine it like a vending machine that's supposed to dispense soda if you put Euro coins in, but it'll equally dispense soda if you put other flat pieces of metal in it.

Oft ist in der Psychologie von Introvertierten und Extrovertierten die Rede.

Doktor in Psychologie hier. Nein, ist es nicht. Wenn ueberhaupt, dann ist von der Persoenlichkeitsdimension Extraversion die Rede, wo niedrige Auspraegungen dann Introvertiertheit entsprechen. Typologien dieser Art sind, vorsichtig formuliert, nicht state of the art. Weniger vorsichtig: Bloedsinn auf dem Niveau eines Buzzfeed-Tests, welche Art von Laugengebaeck man ist.

That's stupid, though. If you can explain 11% of the variance of some noisy phenomenon like cognitive and behavioral flexibility, that's noteworthy. They tested both linear and quadratic terms, and the quadratic one worked better in terms of prediction, and is also an expression of a meaningful theoretical model, rather than just throwing higher polynomials at it for the fun of it. Quadratic here also would coincide with some homogenizing mechanism at the two ends of the age distribution.

Good for them.

Sure, I'd call it probably zoology, but whatever, "animals" counts.

Maybe if your job is to, broadly, create culture it's a bad idea to use the previous-culture blended slop dispenser.

Der Schrott wird ueberall reingepresst, ich bins einfach nur leid, den Scheiss ueberall zu sehen.

Don't believe nazi propaganda about those things. They were largely inefficient and disorganized, they just predated others to fuel their goals. It's one of the economic reasons for waging war on everyone: once you use up your local stolen wealth, you gotta raid other people's. Nazi organizational structures were famously broken, with different redundant levels of political control pitted against each other, in line with social darwinist ideas.

And by far not all Nazis were true believers. Tons were "merely" playing along, because they thought they'd get something out of it. They often did, with the wealth of previously Jewish owned (and other) companies being handed to people close to the leadership.

These are parallels, not contrasts.

Oh hey these three (Dawk, Coyne, Pinker) were disappointments/shitty back when the atheism movement of the Aughties split into those who combine it with social justice sentiments and those who just wanna be bigots without also going to church. That tracks.