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· 4 years ago
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Well, possibly. There are a few ways to look at it. The first and simplest is that they do use some type of cross drive screw. They use knobs. They use switches. They have buttons and control sticks and chairs like us. They have wheels and treads for vehicles. BB8 Is one obvious piece of evidence that just like us they figured out spheres roll. The “Phillips” is one specific type of screw with given measurements and geometry and many cross drive screws exist that aren’t technically Phillips. Various screw designs were invented near identically in concept around the world without knowledge of the others because they made sense.
guest_
· 4 years ago
The second explanation is a little more meta- but the complaint is pretty meta too. The original lightsabers were made with parts from things like panaflex cameras and other machine parts. Does that mean they also have early 20th century cameras in Star Wars? Given many props are made with real world parts and built on- it of course makes sense there would be some real world stuff shown.
guest_
· 4 years ago
The third is the most complex. It has to do with perception and the question- is that a screw? You see- this is hard to grasp but follow me- it could not be a screw at all and we are just SEEING a screw. How could that be? Well- and research and historical study has shown this effect with isolated groups of humans encountering very foreign things, as well as experimentally suggested a case for things like higher dimensional objects and spaces or even alien life or technology....
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Your brain is complex but also simple. It lies to you all the time. When the first wave of explorers from Europe came to the Americas- natives didn’t see the ships. Yeah. Giant ships. It was too alien. The concept of a boat they had- but nothing like a giant galleon. Their minds couldn’t reconcile it with their known reality so for some they didn’t see the ships. Likewise- a documented phenomenon for some visiting places like Paris or Rome is a type of sensory overload that can cause disorientation, memory loss and black outs. The operating theory is that people are overcome by what they are seeing and the brain just can’t handle it.
guest_
· 4 years ago
Your mind extrapolates what it doesn’t know from what it does. Many optical illusions use this, many types of disorientation in flight or space etc. come from this. Same with some people having sickness from video games or films. Motion sickness is itself a type of dissidence.
guest_
· 4 years ago
When your mind sees something that disagrees with what it understands to be reality, or something so foreign that it cannot begin to try and process and make sense of it- it only has a few tools. It might shut down completely or otherwise “malfunction” in its confusion. It might invent some delusion or just pretend it doesn’t see it- or it might just- if the thing you are looking at or experiencing is somehow “close enough” as far as your brain is concerned- connect it to something you CAN relate to and you just see that instead.
guest_
· 4 years ago
Your brain makes stuff up all the time. Hold your head still and dart your eyes left to right or up and down. You just went blind. For the time it takes your eyes to move and stop you go blind. That would be very disconcerting so- based on what you see and the “rules” your brain knows for reality and your surroundings- it creates a fake image and everything you’re seeing between movements is actually brain photoshop.
guest_
· 4 years ago
Same with many things like tracking moving objects. You can’t really track them much of the time. But your brain sees the object and where it ends up and fills in the most realistic trajectory between the two based on what it knows.
