Blinking

[Mudhammam]

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

Fuck. Now I'm aware of blinking again. It took me way too long last time to become unconscious again of blinking. Fuck you!

[Jackalope]

Fuck. Now I'm aware of blinking again. It took me way too long last time to become unconscious again of blinking. Fuck you!

Blink.

Blink.

Blink.

Blink.


P.S. You're welcome.

[Sejanus]

[Mudhammam]

16 hours = 960 minutes = 9600 blinks. 9600(0.05) = 480 seconds spent blinking. 480 seconds = 8 minutes. 8(100)/960 = 0.83333%
That's what I got.

Yeah, the math would work out to be about 5% if we blunk (is that a word?) every second.

Here's how I got .5%: 16 hours = 960 minutes or 57,600 seconds. A blink every 10 seconds = 5,700 blinks, which at 50 milliseconds = 288 seconds. 288/5,760 = .005, or .5%.

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So how the fluck did this guy get 5%? :/

[pocaracas]

Maybe they forgot the dot in the printed book?

[Mudhammam]

Maybe they forgot the dot in the printed book?

Maybe. But then Dennett just didn't think about it or do the math when he quoted it--kind of disheartening. Not to mention they both use it to discuss various adaptionist reasons why humans may have evolved this way and it kind of renders their subsequent points about it moot. Read the last paragraph in the e-book link I provided and 1st or 2nd on the next page. You'll see what I mean.

[Sejanus]

16 hours = 960 minutes = 9600 blinks. 9600(0.05) = 480 seconds spent blinking. 480 seconds = 8 minutes. 8(100)/960 = 0.83333%
That's what I got.

Yeah, the math would work out to be about 5% if we blunk (is that a word?) every second.

Here's how I got .5%: 16 hours = 960 minutes or 57,600 seconds. A blink every 10 seconds = 5,700 blinks, which at 50 milliseconds = 288 seconds. 288/5,760 = .005, or .5%.

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So how the fluck did this guy get 5%? :/

Ahh, this is where you went wrong. In the OP it says you blink on average 10 times per minute, which would be 60/10 or 1 blink every 6 seconds. You used 1 blink every 10 seconds, or 6 blinks per minute. An easy mistake to make.

[Mudhammam]

Ahh, this is where you went wrong. In the OP it says you blink on average 10 times per minute, which would be 60/10 or 1 blink every 6 seconds. You used 1 blink every 10 seconds, or 6 blinks per minute. An easy mistake to make.

Ahh, that I did! Thank you for the correction! That makes their 5% statement even more baffling...

[ShaMan]

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