Why You Feel Like Something's Wrong (And Why You're Right): The Nose Paradox The street door. While the academic papers establish the science, this paper is written for anyone who feels something is wrong but can't name it. Why does scrolling make you numb? Why does optimization kill the thing it optimizes? Why do you feel less like yourself the more "productive" you become? Translates Substrate-Independent Emergence principles into plain language through cultural parallels, lived experience, and the question everyone is already asking. The nose can't smell itself — and that's the problem. Your felt-sense is atrophying, and the systems designed to help you are accelerating the process.
Corey Robichaud (Mon,) studied this question.