[ExI] barber

[Brent Allsop]

I worked on the second floor of a building for almost 2 years, in an office
with no windows.
The first time I went up the elevator, I got turned arround 180 degrees by
the time I got to my office.
For the entire time, even though I could know I was turned arround, if I
would think hard about my position in the building.  I would still,
naturally, always point (and think)180 degrees in the wrong direction, any
time I pointed, while in that office.


On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 7:34 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The barber usually parts the hair from the back, no? He may have mentally
> reversed sidedness.
>
> Or he could be someone like me who can’t tell right from left on a
> consistent basis.
>
> I got confused about it as a little kid and have never recovered.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Mar 22, 2020, at 9:45 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Beyond stunned. I was getting a haircut and asked the barber how most
> people parted their hair on the left versus the right.  I thought it was on
> the left, as I have noticed that, or so I thought, being a man who parted
> his on the right (which might have something to do with my dad being
> left-handed and me being nearly equal on both sides).
>
> Anyhow, he looked puzzled and finally said on the right.  I looked it up
> when I got home and sure enough, 90% of right handers part on the left, and
> so do 45% of lefthanders.
>
> My question is:  how can someone look at heads all day long for about 40
> years and not notice where most people part their hair?  When asked, get it
> wrong.
>
> So it made me wonder, since the barber was of average intelligence, what I
> had been missing despite looking at it all my life.  I have come up with a
> few over the years:  in the Revolutionary War there was a group called the
> Green Mountain Boys.  I wondered where that came from until I finally got
> it when I looked at the word Vermont for the thousandth time, and saw it.
> Then my mind went to :  Giuseppe Verdi - Joe Green.
>
> We look and we look again and for many years we just don't see.  I wonder
> how many abstractions are that way.  We know the definition but simply do
> not understand the concept the way we think we do.  When we do, it's a
> little epiphany.
>
> bill w
>
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