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I find it fascinating / hard to fully appreciate how much of our vision is our brain's interpolation, not actual sensory perception. It works amazingly well but fun to play with optical illusions where it predictably fails 😍 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling-in

And this is only the processing that gets us to a mental image... Language describing our view is another level of lossy compression. Low bitrates strengthen negative emotions in music, is this what's happening on Twitter too? https://www.whathifi.com/news/mp3s-make-you-less-happy-study-says
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Reversing this tendency is the insight behind "touch grass" meme ... more elegantly articulated by EO Wilson as the biophilic hypothesis... humans evolved for the sensory experience of being in nature, we need the subconscious comfort of birdsong and wind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis