{"id":6231,"date":"2013-11-13T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T01:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2013-11-13T04:49:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T04:49:07","slug":"supernormal-stimuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/supernormal-stimuli\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernormal Stimuli &#038; Our Reptile Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently binged on\u00a0<a title=\"Game Review #1: Grand Theft Auto V\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/gtav-review\">Grand Theft Auto V<\/a>\u00a0and finished it in a week. More recently, I&#8217;ve been watching television in addition to movies (both <em>Homeland<\/em> and <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>). Then I read a comic like the one below and it makes me perceive all of that in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Are false experiences that elicit the same biological response as real ones equally valid? If The Matrix existed, would you choose to live inside it? We rarely ask ourselves these questions consciously, but everyday we silently answer them by making choices.<\/p>\n<p>This is long. Take a minute to read it though, it&#8217;s outstanding. It&#8217;s the most thought provoking comic I&#8217;ve read since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/book-review-zen-of-steve-jobs\">The Zen of Steve Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6241 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"Supernormal Stimuli\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/supernormal-stimuli-web2.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"17883\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuartmcmillen.com\/comics_en\/supernormal-stimuli\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart McMillen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently binged on\u00a0Grand Theft Auto V\u00a0and finished it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Supernormal Stimuli &amp; 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