Comments on: Review: 500 Days of Summer http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer Committees exist to share blame. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Review: Harold and Maude at MentalPolyphonics http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer/comment-page-1#comment-77087 Review: Harold and Maude at MentalPolyphonics Wed, 11 May 2011 21:45:20 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=5389#comment-77087 [...] Eye Weekly, in doing a similar criticism of 500 Days of Summer as my own, explains the damage caused by the Manic Pixie archetype: There’s something very underrated about [...] [...] Eye Weekly, in doing a similar criticism of 500 Days of Summer as my own, explains the damage caused by the Manic Pixie archetype: There’s something very underrated about [...]

]]> By: The Breakup Movie | MentalPolyphonics http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer/comment-page-1#comment-72220 The Breakup Movie | MentalPolyphonics Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:08:09 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=5389#comment-72220 [...] Jack on Wednesday, 2009-October-28th at 2:07 am I’m writing something loosely based on Jared’s review of (500) Days of Summer. I’m thinking that the way into the character is to have him not be [...] [...] Jack on Wednesday, 2009-October-28th at 2:07 am I’m writing something loosely based on Jared’s review of (500) Days of Summer. I’m thinking that the way into the character is to have him not be [...]

]]> By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer/comment-page-1#comment-71691 Jack Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:49:06 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=5389#comment-71691 <blockquote>I’m not saying that your consciousness is an illusion...</blockquote> Okay, I will. And thank God: I don't know if I could handle this trip if it wasn't. [Edited to add: "but that the idea that you really “know” yourself so much better than anyone else could, is." <- qft to that as well -- that's why poker works. If you knew yourself as well as other people then you'd never give off tells.]

I’m not saying that your consciousness is an illusion…

Okay, I will. And thank God: I don’t know if I could handle this trip if it wasn’t.

[Edited to add: "but that the idea that you really “know” yourself so much better than anyone else could, is." <- qft to that as well -- that's why poker works. If you knew yourself as well as other people then you'd never give off tells.]

]]> By: Don http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer/comment-page-1#comment-71688 Don Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:51:38 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=5389#comment-71688 The only test of how well we know someone is how well our model of them predicts their behaviour. The best way to predict their behaviour is not what they say, however earnestly, but by their past behaviour. That there is an internal "you" that is a "truer self" than what your body does and says is largely an illusion. I'm not saying that your consciousness is an illusion, but that the idea that you really "know" yourself so much better than anyone else could, is. What you tell yourself, in the massively parallel, disjointed, non-contemporaneous brain of yours, is not necessarily a higher or truer insight into yourself than how others know you. The only test of how well we know someone is how well our model of them predicts their behaviour. The best way to predict their behaviour is not what they say, however earnestly, but by their past behaviour. That there is an internal “you” that is a “truer self” than what your body does and says is largely an illusion.

I’m not saying that your consciousness is an illusion, but that the idea that you really “know” yourself so much better than anyone else could, is. What you tell yourself, in the massively parallel, disjointed, non-contemporaneous brain of yours, is not necessarily a higher or truer insight into yourself than how others know you.

]]> By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-500-days-of-summer/comment-page-1#comment-71687 Jack Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:53:37 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=5389#comment-71687 That's really good. The trick is that Hollywood sells illusions, not reality. Maybe you're just ahead of the curve. Maybe in 30 years kids will be struggling with an entirely different set of foregone conclusions and imaginary problems and your reality will be a pleasantly quaint illusion to them. One can hope, <a href="http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/psychic-carbon-sequestration#comment-71686" rel="nofollow">but probably shouldn't</a>. That’s really good. The trick is that Hollywood sells illusions, not reality.

Maybe you’re just ahead of the curve. Maybe in 30 years kids will be struggling with an entirely different set of foregone conclusions and imaginary problems and your reality will be a pleasantly quaint illusion to them.

One can hope, but probably shouldn’t.

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