{"id":22224,"date":"2020-05-10T23:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22224"},"modified":"2020-05-10T23:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T04:29:29","slug":"mind-reading-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22224","title":{"rendered":"Mind reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We usually don&#8217;t really know for sure what other people think of us. After all, we don&#8217;t have the power of mind reading.<\/p>\n<p>In my life there have been people whom I was quite sure did not like me. Only later did I find out that they were quite fond of me.<\/p>\n<p>On the opposite end of the spectrum, I can think of people who were consistently pleasant to me. Eventually, I learned that it was just an act, and that they didn&#8217;t really like me at all.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect you have had similar experiences. We just can&#8217;t know what is going on in the head of another person.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much life would change if there were a way to know, with certainty, what other people really thought of us. Maybe this could be achieved by some sort of future glasses with built-in A.I.<\/p>\n<p>Would that lead to something positive? Or would we all just end up killing each other?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We usually don&#8217;t really know for sure what other people think of us. After all, we don&#8217;t have the power of mind reading. In my life there have been people whom I was quite sure did not like me. Only later did I find out that they were quite fond of me. On the opposite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=22224\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind reading&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22225,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}