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sensory processing

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Essays on sensory processing

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Mar 19, 2025ACX

Misophonia: Beyond Sensory Sensitivity

Scott analyzes misophonia through new research and personal experience, suggesting it might be maintained by complex emotional and social networks rather than pure sound sensitivity.

13 min read 1,960 words

Mar 10, 2013SSC

Good vibrations and subjective temporal granularity

Scott Alexander explores subjective temporal granularity, its relation to meditation, and how it might allow for intervening in thought construction.

7 min read 1,018 words

consciousness meditation perception