My Father is a Synth | Capgras Delusion

The big "boogey man" story in Fallout 4 involves the Institute replacing people in the world with identical robotic replicas - known as synths. Strangely, this story exists in the real world, and not the story about Illuminati Cloning Facilities; but in a well-documented psychological delusion. Find out how and why it happens!
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[@moviemaker1986]

Not to be confused with "Crabgrass Delusion" or the irrational certainty that your neighbor is sneaking onto your lawn every night to plant weeds. Only a synth would do that.

[@fishbuddy547]

But it's not a delusion. I swear I see Debra scuttle out there on all fours with her fuzzy slippers, clutching a handful of Crabgrass. She may deny it, but I KNOW the truth.

[@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679]

Point. I did think that was limited to California residents of Carmel as opposed to Nation-wide.

[@alexanderchippel]

*only a Weezer would do that.

[@joeblow9657]

WEEZER!

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Lmfao I feel like anyone that's owned a lawn has thought of that possibility at least once.

[@RangerHouston]

My girlfriend left the cap off the toothpaste, you know who does that? *A synth*

[@jamesjacocks6221]

It's a similar condition known as Capped Delusion and it is far more common than Capgras Delusion. Although she has received a lifetime of therapy my spouse still is not able to control hers.

[@jimmilton6644]

Ave true to Caesar

[@jimmilton6644]

patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@jimmilton6644]

DID YOU KNOW THE STRIP´S ALL STIRRED UP LATELY?

[@redpotato2585]

When I got this assignment I thought there'd be more gambling

[@michaelmckeever2734]

When I was in high school, my mom mistook a picture on our high school's page of me. It was my friend (who looks noticeably different). She had it printed out and hung it up. I asked her why she had a picture of Dan up and she said, "That's not Dan, that's you." I pulled up the high school's page and it even said his name right under the picture. So.... my mom didn't recognize the difference between me and my friend.

[@_ee75]

Facial blindness probably?

[@DrelvanianGuardOffic]

I know my Dad could never be replaced with a synth... the material cost would be way to high for a synth that large..

[@Ashrubel]

A Voice Crying Out ha

[@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679]

2019 taxpayer expense never halted a 2019 POTUS or his voters. 2020 voting will attend discussions. If daddy is a synth or not.

[@douglasphillips5870]

I'm not a doppelganger of myself, but I do resemble one.

[@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679]

Reader is easily replaced. People will recall when you acted worse.

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

hmmmmmmmmmm, that sounds like something a synth would say!

[@cdogthehedgehog6923]

Top tier dad joke.

[@fatwoul]

If someone with Capgras just closes their eyes whilst interacting with a "cloned" parent/friend face-to-face, does the clone immediately become the real person in their mind? Or do they need the entire interaction to be non-visual to avoid the sensation?

[@Alia-bc3rc]

I'm an epileptic, and once I had a horrible seizure at night. Waking up in the morning, I can't recognize everyone in the house. I knew that I do know them, but I just didn't know name or faces or who are they. It lasted for several hours. Scary AF.

[@imgaylolxd8053]

the other half of your brain that has the ability to recognize facial features and such stopped working or got disconnected for a while

[@decidiousrex]

My dad had a seizure when I was a kid. I will never forget how, when he came to, I could see the look of pain in his face as he looked around and recognized everything but in absolutely no way could he put words to any of it. The paramedic said "this is your son" and in his face I could see he recognized me, but somehow at the same time he had no idea who I was. Luckily he fully recovered from that very quickly, but it's an experience I'll never forget. My grandmother (not his mom, his wife's mom) had Alzheimer's and often had no idea who I was. There was no deeper recognition, at that moment any memory she had of me was totally inaccessible. She truly had no idea who I, her grandson, was. What my dad went through after his seizure was something totally different. I went through a semi-similar experience many years after that. I was donating blood, and I guess donated a little more than I could afford to lose. I passed out hard. I've never done any hallucinogenic drugs, so I will say that experience was the only out-of-body hallucination, or closest I can come to it from my experience, that I've ever had. When I came to, the best that I can describe it is like my brain rebooted and my faculties returned to me one by one. The first one was vision. I saw a nurse standing in front of me holding several fingers up. Next, I could hear her asking me how many fingers she's holding up. Three. It's clearly three. Bur my ability to speak had not rebooted yet. She's asking me repeatedly how many fingers she's holding up, and every time I am thinking "three, you idiot, I know how many fingers you're holding up" but all I could say was "uuuuugggggghhhhyyyyyuuuu" and so she kept asking. Eventually they informed me I had gone to the bathroom in my pants and they gave me crackers and peanut butter. At any rate, the human brain is a magnificent thing. You don't truly appreciate the fact that a wet glob of fat is responsible for creating literally everything you know and understand until you see it fall apart in someone else, and then again when it falls apart for you.

[@peacecrafttrue]

When my little brother's paranoid-schitzophrenia peaked: he asked if I was the brother he grew up with often and claimed the entire family and friends had been replaces with "dopplegangers". He ended up in the hospital after standing over ma in the night flipping a knife open and closed. It was a nightmare. He's medicated, working and living is his own home now though! Don't do crystals of acid, we never know what's lurking inside.

[@whodoobucrew2960]

T.G. Cidolfus what on earth are crystals of acid??

[@peacecrafttrue]

Joe Bubenz 1000 doses each.

[@grizzlyadamblack]

I think i tried I got beyond paranoid

[@tunclegingercunt9696]

So he i better now? Does he still suffer from the effects of schitzophrenia?

[@EebstertheGreat]

+Joe Bubenz "Acid" is slang for the psychedelic drug LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide). It really is a (very) weak acid when dissolved in water, but as a solid, it forms crystals. Most people who do LSD ("drop acid") put strips of blotter paper on their tongue with tiny amounts of a dilute LSD solution absorbed into them. However, some people make or buy whole, reasonably pure crystals and use them to take massive doses, for instance, by pressing a thumb against the crystal and licking the "thumbprint" off the thumb. LSD is so potent, that even that thin layer with a weight of just a few milligrams or tens of milligrams can contain tens to hundreds of typical (100 µg) doses, perhaps even over a thousand if you do multiple in a night. LSD is unusual among recreational drugs in that it has a very high "recreational index." That is, the ratio of the maximum dose a typical person can tolerate to the minimum dose a typical person can enjoy is quite large, indeed in the hundreds. The key word here though is _typical,_ and there is no good way to know how you will be affected by a drug like this, even if you think you are very psychologically stable. While it is probably technically true that the psychosis (often manifesting as schizophrenia) associated with LSD only affects people already predisposed to it, the fact that nobody knows if they are predisposed makes this information sort of useless. Apart from that, living on the edge of an overdose and long-term (months to years) or even permanent effects is terribly reckless. Taking huge doses of any drug is a huge risk, and while in some ways LSD may be safer than most, "doing crystals of acid" is crazy and never smart. At least, that's how I understand Nataku IX's post.

[@tcironbear21]

Is that Indian Neil DeGrasse Tyson?!?

[@pomponi0]

Synth DeGrasse Tyson

[@user-qz7wg2rq4b]

I thought this too!!!

[@darkpyre1]

Show idea: Neil DeGrasse Tyson was made in a lab. There is one of every ethnicity but we've lost contact with all but Neil Prime and Indian Neil. The two must travel the globe looking for the others so they can bring mankind to the intergalactic level.

[@BaldingClamydia]

I'd watch it

[@sterlingveil]

Even better, it's Dr Ramachandran!

[@mr-century]

I love how you always take a moment to say “hold on fellas, you don’t have this”

[@bartdebot1589]

I love the phone convo between discount Tom Cruise and Indian Neill DeGrasse Tyson

[@cs5384]

My son and I have developmental prosopagnosia. It's a spectrum, ya know? Not everyone has it to the degree that they wouldn't recognize their own children in a familiar setting. For me it's going to happen in unfamiliar settings. Like not long ago I ran in to my brother at the grocery store. It's a very strange place for me to see him because it's not his neighborhood, but he just happened to be in the area so he stopped in. I didn't recognize him until he started talking. We're in our 50s. We're pretty close siblings so this tells you what degree I have it. The same happened a few years ago seeing my sister-in-law at the zoo. I didn't know who she was and she came in with hugs. This sort of thing is so off-putting! And for my son it's worse because he has very little visual memory at all. He sees words. He can evoke other senses in memory, like he can think of lemon and smell it. He can hear a horn if he thinks horn. But he won't see anything other than the words. It's very strange to me to imagine him being that way because he's also a very talented artist. My son and I are both autistic so it could be related to this. I've heard it's more common with autistic people.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That’s really interesting. I’m autistic too and have a very strong visual memory, but awful ability to conjure imagery (hypophantasia). Nevertheless I also have a mild form, I have a really hard time recognising people in train stations even when I’m familiar with their appearance otherwise. And it took hours when I was very young for my dad to repeatedly demonstrate he was the same guy without his glasses before I stopped freaking out about a stranger being in the house. I have to consciously focus on each part of a face in turn to recognise someone, and reconstruct the familiar.

[@betsywoolbright8059]

@@kaitlyn__L I'm Autistic, too (37f) and am poor at recognizing faces, especially out of context. I have to consciously memorize people's faces. I can do so, but it requires effort, which is compounded by the fact that I often don't look at people's faces, especially their eyes.

[@ericveneto1593]

An episode of "Criminal Minds" is my only exposure to it. Thanks Reid!

[@QwerTheAlmig]

4:47 discound Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[@pikistikman]

Qwerty the Almighty *Designated Neill Degrass Tyson

[@ikazuchioni]

DING!

[@klausillo]

You are krrrazy.

[@GAIUSJAKE]

Discount spelling

[@hawoaliahmed6996]

@@pikistikman a better neil degrasse tyson

[@bentoth9555]

My roommate has a mild form of prosopagnosia. His brain can't seem to recognize faces as a cohesive whole, instead seeing individual features. All it takes for him to not recognize someone is for them to change their hairstyle, or take off their glasses unless he's very, very familiar with them.

[@birchfieldeducational9179]

Omg me too! My best friend (I mean like sisters literally spent more time together than apart) moved to another state and got a hair cut (nothing drastic just styled more) and sent me a picture and I never could see that it was her. I know because she sent it to me but no matter how long I looked at it I couldn't see my friend in that picture.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That mild form is increasingly being recognised as quite common in autism. Where it’s not an automatic process, you have to manually go and check their jawline, browline, nose shape, chin shape etc consciously. But not so bad that it completely stands in the way of any attempts to identify someone, once you’ve got someone clocked you can mentally substitute their hairstyle/outfit etc. A bonus is once you’ve gotten good enough at that manual process, it becomes trivial to recognise actors under heavy prosthetics so long as at least one feature hasn’t been significantly covered up. People who rely on their automatic system usually get it fooled by a forehead and a nose. I am autistic and remember being really upset and crying at this strange man in the house when my dad took off his glasses. (I was 4 I think.) He had to take them off and put them back on about 10 times before I could begin to see it. He also had to show me pictures of wearing his older glasses to show they change styles sometimes. Seeing him change glasses many more times since has helped me recognise him better, but it’s still a bit disconcerting when he takes his glasses off to read something. I have to focus on his brow and hairline to remind myself it’s still him lol. Or if he changes glasses between seeing each other, I feel like I’m looking at a stranger for quite a while even though everything else about how he dressed was the same.

[@betsywoolbright8059]

Same. I recognize people by their hair, not their faces.

[@kaned5543]

I do have a very hard time with visual recall of people's faces, I usually can't bring a clear image to mind unless I picture them laughing or something else that is heavily expressive, and even then it's incredibly fuzzy. But I don't have any problem recognizing people once I see them. I've never been sure if that was normal or not.

[@luanabransX]

Your dad had the laser eyes. He's a shapeshifter. Do your research!🤣

[@skirwan78]

There were interesting cases I studied in psychology where the facial recognition area was damaged so the person couldn’t recognize anyone by face but because the auditory path was fine the second someone talked to them they could recognize the person, but if they stopped or turned around they wouldn’t know who was who until they spoke again

[@bojanglesfries]

My girlfreind makes electronic sounds when you press her keys. She's probably a synth.

[@k.m.virginia7523]

I enjoy learning from your videos and really get a kick out of your dry humor and subtle (not always) jokes. I think it is an excellent tactic for getting across points that are difficult to understand, but even better at conveying serious topics that could easily be taken with offense. I applaud you and I will certainly be taking in more of your wisdom.

[@asherael]

I thought Identifying people by mugshots or lineups was a made-up movie convention until I was a teenager and figured out I just don't key into whatever it is you people see. You all look the same to me.

[@Angela-pj5xy]

I don't know, I think most people look very similar. Sometimes I have trouble following movies because their is more than one blond actor. Me: "I though the blond guy was the good guy and the black guy was his friend." Turns out there were two blonds and three black guys.

[@armydillo1013]

yeh, but turns out it's apperently racist to get people's faces mixed up if they're a minority

[@asherael]

iiits not terribly couth to say all members of an ethnic group look the same, but it's because it implies you can't be bothered to see anything past their ethnic group. I guess I get cut some slack cuz I have a very hard time telling anybody apart, but even I can usually figure it out with some context clues, it's not hard to make satisfactory effort.

[@digitalutopia1]

The key problem with lineups/mugshots is memory. Take those people who have bad face memory, and put them in a situation that requires remembering faces, and there's going to be problems. Especially since the brain wants an answer, but isn't too terribly concerned with getting the *right* answer. Which leads to police being able to influence them to pick a particular person.

[@betsywoolbright8059]

@@digitalutopia1 I was (rightfully) accused of committing a crime not long after I had a baby. A couple months after the incident, I was arrested and photographed for a photo lineup. The witness looked at my photo, as well as 4 or 5 photos of other people. I'd lost a bunch of baby weight and wore my hair differently by the time I was arrested. The witness failed to recognize the photo of me. This was in 2011. I finished paying my debt to society years ago.

[@MatthewCaban]

Very entertaining and interesting. Love the line "Another settlement that needs your help!"

[@alexnelson7258]

Just watched that episode of NOVA last week. I was thinking about it the whole time. Great video!

[@UsenameTakenWasTaken]

Remember when liking Bethesda only hurt a little bit? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[@vid8540]

Reminds me of that X-files episode :)

[@user-qz7wg2rq4b]

Vid Terzer Umm... which one?

[@arbresnow401]

The Soldier with PTSD who decides to kidnap his parents and try to shoot up his workplace (I think?)

[@aidanharrison3888]

This happened to me . An old lady , a family friend , just ĺooked wierd . It was her , but it wasnt . After a few minutes she started talking about how uncomfortable her new false teeth were .

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

This channel is incredibly good

[@tepetti]

I wouldn’t mind if my father got replaced by a synth. Especially if it is Korg M1!

[@MrFortyeight]

I hear what you said, but I don't see what you mean. Synth Corporation on line 1.......

[@OptimusPhillip]

I remember I first learned about this disorder through Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where things initially appear to just be an unusual epidemic of this delusion (though I don't recall it being mentioned by name in the book or film, I remember seeing it on the Wikipedia page)

[@Chibiriah]

Cool video. I had a time in my life when I thought some of my family members were imposters. Luckily I've become more rational and I'm pretty sure they haven't been replaced.

[@vincedibona4687]

"pretty sure"... :|

[@ymeynot0405]

+Knowing Better = My favorite person on KZbin after CGP Grey.

[@besacciaesteban]

There's also crapgrass delusion, when you feel that the grass is crapier on your side of the fence XD

[@aborne]

At 3:00...😂 oh man. I love your deadpan humor. Absolutely love it.

[@Claytone-Records]

‘He was a very nice boy, he used to cut the grass’. FZ AKA: Cutgrass Delusion

[@qqwipz6866]

Broke up with my girl today,she kept the cap off the toothpaste,you know who does that? *a synth*

[@Hippiekinkster]

I tpld her it wouldn't work but she said, "Don't worry, I know EXACTLY what buttons to push. He'll think it was HIS idea to break up. He'll never know I manipulated him into it. Then we can be together publicly instead of sneaking around." DAMNED if she wasn't right!

[@alemirdikson]

Homie's gotten better at this over the years. Learned how to project his voice. Very nice.

[@brandondavidson4085]

Also you know how people say "I'm better with faces than I am with names". Yeah, that's literally everyone. The Fusiform Face Area has much stronger connection in the brain than the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, which contain information about name memory and recognition.

[@betsywoolbright8059]

I'm far better with names. Not faces.

[@alloutofdonuts3998]

What do you call it when you see someone that you think you know but you also know that you never met them, then you start thinking you saw them on TV, or in a different setting(like they work somewhere you frequent but they have a different appearance), or even in a dream something. Did I see them somewhere before? I really don't know, but I really don't think so either. Is this what people mean when they say they knew someone in a past life? It feels so strange and confusing and unpleasant but also interesting. Maybe I should be sleeping more and watching KZbin less - at night anyway.

[@gspendlove]

....and the friar says, "Well, I'm not sure of his name, but, y'know...his face rings a bell."

[@kamacazi8]

Good funny shit. Reminds me of that movie: WestWorld.

[@irinaphoenix2169]

Oh! That's also why if I haven't watched a TV show or movie for a long time, I can see a character and feel strong feelings about them but not know why! Bc I don't have a strong stored episodic memory of what they do, but I recognize the face and it activates that feeling.

[@winston_b3671]

Okay... I have like never seen this video listed, but have just now seen it

[@crazytalk8120]

"But whatever, I'm American." Hell yeah baby!

[@fds7476]

Sounds like a name from South Park...

[@sybo10]

that was a good one, much shorter than the others, i can only listen to your voice for about 6 minutes, so close to perfect

[@zakkf794]

enjoyable. subbed.

[@vollyballgirl257]

I LOVE your dad's Star Trek costume. Seriously cool.

[@waynesanford2869]

I narrowly escaped having that pathway broken. I'm glad

[@cuckling9031]

1:01 imagine walkling outside and seeing this

[@JSO-ts9du]

Ive had Capgras during a time in my life that was so high-stress I had stress induced delusion, then hallucinations and Capgras. Only with certain of my classmates though (which, interestingly, then fed into my delusion that they were probably abducted and replaced with a nearly identical person? )

[@strider_hiryu850]

Those eyes will probably seep they're way into my dreams, and haunt for maybe a month.

[@wackyflappybob]

That ending actually made me a little scared 😂

[@LetsFindOut1]

Haha "Cap Grass" dag nabbit!

[@Rabbit-the-One]

I had this when I was a kid. I was taken home by exact copies of my parents in a number of stores. I just kinda grew out of it?

[@MacetazzOpina]

im going to do my thesis about psycho acoustics and how visual perceptual reenforcement can help in the music industry, (i'm studying audio engineering). Can you provide sources about what you said? that vision always overrides sound in the brain?

[@soulmechanics7946]

I have a resident with encephalitis who reminds me of my Mom so much it makes me cry sometimes talking to her and I have to run to the closet and hide. Perfect cover for a synth.

[@TheDanno210]

"Be sure to upgrade that subscribe button to the romance level" - coffee spews, dry humor level: epic

[@r6k8n99]

2:48 A character in Jennifer Niven's 'Holding Up the Universe' has this condition.

[@ryanrusch3976]

Imagine knowing somebody with this disease and playing along, wonder what would happen.

[@niteshades_promise]

Ryan Rusch thats fuct

[@eopatcjo]

Am I way too late? Perhaps. But I just got into FO4 and this is lovely.

[@conner5642]

Why are you always so excited to bring up Syphilis? I mean I’m here for it. I just wanna know.

[@EebstertheGreat]

In this video, you say at 5:04 "[V]isual information always overrides auditory information in the brain." I wonder if you (or someone else) could explain that, because it sounds interesting. In this case, it doesn't really seem necessary, because as long as the image feels very wrong, that could be enough to make the person feel like an impostor even if their voice sounds right (impostors by definition seem right in most ways and wrong in just a few subtle ones). But I'm hoping you took that sentence from a nugget you learned in class or something. Obviously it can't be precisely true (usually we use both visual and auditory information simultaneously), but maybe when signals of familiarity conflict this badly, one just has to win.

[@DarthBorehd]

I had an ex with this issue, but we didn't know what to call it then. Amongst other things, she accused me of being an impostor of myself.

[@mikemallon1065]

0:41 I see you've earned your Iron Cross

[@shingshongshamalama]

Y'know this delusion got infinitely more terrifying after watching The Thing.

[@rutger5000]

That sounds awefully of Synth talk for someone within big boy distance.

[@ItsRight2JoinTheRebellion]

Basically what Hayato had to go through in Diamond Is Unbreakable but for real.

[@theprogrammer32]

whats up with the vertical arm stretch after the heart? lol you ARE crazy

[@tyrellbrown5535]

I saw this once while working in a mental hospital

[@wadeslovick2815]

*OH MY GOD THAT THUMBNAIL IS HORRIFYING.*

[@SushiElemental]

Welcome to Fallout 4 👀

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

As with all neuropsychological disorders there are degrees...in some cases, connections to a specific area are damaged as opposed to the area itself...this may result in a constellation of symptoms as most of these connections that are damaged receive input from multiple regions...Prosopagnosia may also be caused by a disconnection syndrome...so people who are “bad with faces” may indeed have a milder variety of this without outright damage to the ITG. Also, if the Amygda suffers damage the same symptoms may result...of course there will also be problems storing and processing emotional memories...theoretically PTSD is based on traumatic memories being stored via the Amygdala as opposed to processed and stored via the Hippocampus/Prefrontal circuit which is the typical route for most memories. Persistent Capgras Delusion is still rare...it usually does resolve...the cases that don’t are typically seen in dementia patients and chronic recurrent schizophrenia...or those with extensive TBI...as a side note, I was studying for my PhD in neuropsychology. I am currently working on my psychiatric nurse practitioner. I have encountered a few of these cases. Those that I have encountered resolved, fortunately...so far.

[@ottovonbismarck3905]

I wonder if the inverse can happen? If the pathway between the audio connection to the amygdala is severed, but the visual connection remains intact, would they think their loved ones were impostors over the phone, but believe they were real when meeting face to face?

[@allanrichardson1468]

I read this joke in a book of Jewish humor (compiled by a rabbi) some years ago. An elderly Jewish woman was about to board an El Al flight from JFK to Tel Aviv, carrying her little lap dog in a cage, covered by a blanket. The gate agent informed her that there was no way she could carry the dog aboard the plane, but assured her the dog would be perfectly safe in the luggage compartment, so reluctantly she gave up little Hymie to travel downstairs. When the flight landed, the luggage handlers discovered that little Hymie was dead, so to avoid disappointing the old lady, they made up a security related excuse to keep the plane on the tarmac and all passengers aboard, while they sent agents to every pet store in Tel Aviv to find an identical looking dog. After an hour and a half, during which all the passengers believed the security personnel were looking for a bomb or something, they made the switch, pulled up to the gate, and allowed the passengers to deplane. The airport manager himself greeted the old lady, holding the cage with the lookalike dog happily barking inside, and told the old lady that they had kept their word and the dog was unharmed. The old lady said, “That’s not my Hymie!” The manager assured her it was her dog, but she insisted, saying, “My little Hymie was 18, and he died the other day. I was bringing him to be buried in Israel!”

[@penguinsrockrgr8yt216]

I think the fear of the institute in the commonwealth has lead to capgras syndrome becoming commonplace throughout the wasteland through fear Anyways enough with my nerdy fallout theories This is a very interesting condition that is very similar to conditions in pop culture for example in star wars legends there’s force psychosis where Jedi affected by the mother in the maw were convinced everyone had been replaced by a alien species

[@SaccidanandaSadasiva]

Are you soulless robots? (video game) Actors? (Truman show) Expansions of my mind? (solipsism) Alien impostors in familiar forms? (capgras)

[@crazymike7883]

I actually know someone who had a car accident and this happened. We use to be friends but because of this he cut all ties. I hear he has gotten better at accepting it now but it really sucks.

[@anniemac7545]

My father had Capgras. He had a bad time on a holiday in Europe with my mother, accusing her of taking her jewellery and belongings. He also had a problem with his home, not believing he was in his 'real' home. I noticed he was more 'chilled' than he had ever been, yet he was very aggressive and violent with my mother, however she didn't handle his Capras well, so she probably inflamed the situation. It's a intriguing situation.

[@PalnPWN]

That thumbnail is CURSED

[@leeoswald668]

You forgot to Morse code "help me"

[@AvrahamYairStern]

4:41 this guy speaks like a proper scientist.

[@juggaloclownpreacher]

This is an awesome way to use an illness and then use a gaming Situation from fallout 4 As a comparable situation.

[@trapez77]

But wouldn't they think everyone is an imposter?

[@TheCrazedViking]

That fucking thumbnail.. we're in the shadow of the uncanny valley

[@gabeangel8104]

I don’t think prosopagnosia is as rare as people think. I still don’t think it’s common but I’ve found a few other people who say they have it in comment sections on videos like this. Thing is, we judge how common things like this is by ‘documented cases’ like you said, but how do cases get ‘documented’? It’s not something you nessasarily go to your doctor about or whatever, is it! I never even told anyone as a child that I couldn’t recognise people because I didn’t realise it was a ‘thing’. I just learned to bluff a lot in conversations and got silently really panicky in situations where I couldn’t find a way around having to go and find a specific person in a public place or something. A friend discovered what it was and showed me a link to an article about it a few years ago. She was the first person I had ever really talked to about it. I still don’t really talk about it unless it happens to come up in conversation or a there’s specific a reason I need someone to know (like my carer and my partner know so they can help me). Most people with it, like me, find ways around it and because of that, and the fact there’s no cure, most people probably feel it would be a waste of time and resources to go down clinical/medical routs about it. It does seem to have some links to autism in some cases which may bring it to the attention of professionals if the person is undergoing assessment and/or therapy for that, but may also cause it to not be noticed if the person is unable to communicate the issue effectively or if the difficulties are put down to other causes (like if it’s assumed that the person just doesn’t want to interact/respond so no one picks up on the fact that they aren’t recognising people)

[@FloorEncer]

Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran and the late Oliver Sacks have meant so much to me in understanding the brain/mind. They have been able to tease out details to add to our understanding from studying those who have brain traumas.

[@XavierZara]

But they HAVE been replaced with a changeling!

[@dennisbeers]

The grocho marx indian is scary.

[@josephsykes4920]

I have those exact same gaming headphones

[@misschief4283]

Prosopagnosia is not limited to a few people, it's not common but it's way more common than that! I had it bad as a child and like many people I learned to overcome it in my teens (by learning to concentrate on facial structure and identifying features, I mostly did this by looking at actors who always look different but are still the same people) I'm still not great but I recognise some people like close friends, family and partners and I remember people I work with regularly as long as I see them at work, if I run into them in a shop I'm fucked (something to do with how/where I store facial memories I assume). I genuinely freaked out once as a small kid, when my mother picked me up from school after getting a new hair do and I don't know how many times I walked off with someone wearing something my mother also had in her wardrobe. I have ex's who's faces I can't remember because we didn't go out for long enough or it was a long time ago, this can be quite embarrassing. I also struggle to build a face in my mind, even one I do recognise... I cannot call up the face, I just know it when I see it. When I was small I thought this was my fault and that I didn't love my parents enough and that was why I couldn't remember their faces.

[@BaldingClamydia]

Sarah Thomas I did see some research where part of the problem is where you focus on the face. Most people focus on the eyes, but they think people with that focus more on the nose area. Not to say that's the only thing going on, just another facet of the problem. At least you can say you don't love someone just for their looks. 😊💜

[@misschief4283]

I am on the ASD spectrum and it is a common (co-morbid) issue for us, it could well be that we don't pay much attention to faces (and certainly not eyes) at all but it's more than that as I was definitely aware of this being an issue where as if I just never looked at faces I wouldn't have known that I 'should' remember them. You're right that looks (certainly faces) aren't very important to me though. Like eye contact this is something I had to consciously learn. I still really struggle with people in films who look similar and aren't the main protagonist for example, but I do score quite well on tests now as I have learned to look at the underlying structure of a face, like; jawline, nose, cheek bones, brow ridge etc.

[@BaldingClamydia]

I see what you're saying. I can even emphasize with some of that! I can't picture anyone but my kids in my head, and celebrities are so difficult. At a glance I can mix up young Matt Damon, young Mark Walberg, and Leo DiCaprio. To me they look so similar but I've been told this isn't the case. This is also the main reason I can't watch much anime. Most of the faces are similar enough I'll forget which character is which, so not understand the story.

[@q345ify]

The Crown Princess of Sweden has it (and yes she only realized something was wrong when she noticed that other people could recognize faces and she couldn't)

[@ernststravoblofeld]

I recognize people by voice, mostly. People I'm around everyday, I can usually spot accurately on sight, but everyone else all look like the same 20 or so people. And when it comes to conventionally good looking people like actors and models, they are pretty much identical.

[@alwolpert8216]

Is Prosowhatyousaid the same as "face-blindness"??? Like Oliver Sacks? Funny stuff, BTW, and thanks for showing me I'm not the only one who thought that a royal babe in Star Wars was named after a piece of brain anatomy.

[@ZachMalmgren]

Speaking of doppelgangers, was that Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining how the car accident *didn't* affect the auditory path(s)?

[@Qaos]

Is there a disorder that causes time to be mostly missing from memories?

[@matt1968ish]

I like the Nuka Cola shirt👍 I enjoy all of your videos. Thanks

[@MarkConnely]

I'm aware of the inferior temporal gyrus, but I've never before heard of the infero-temporal gyrus. A cursory Google search shows no results for "infero-temporal gyrus". If this is a neologism, standard form (and basic courtesy) is to provide your audience with a definition, and some idea as to the reason or purpose of its creation, usually showing how its semantic distinction from similar forms is of sufficient degree as to require a new word.

[@Cherry-wn2ye]

when i was 5-10 years old, i believed everyone was replaced with a synth clone or something and idk why. maybe i just had a very active imagination back then

[@jacobkeary6740]

It was probably thag and not actually believing it

[@niteshades_promise]

but what if every one you know and meet is under a mind control spell with the intent of changing your beliefs? what if everyone is apart of this system trying to destroy you?

[@Shenaldrac]

Hell yeah! Cap-gras! Jew New Say Kwa! Cull De Sack! Coop De Grace!

[@Darth_Insidious]

Reminds me of Hayato

[@Darth_Insidious]

KIRA QUEEN BITES ZA DUSTO

[@windurst]

Lmao nice one

[@domesticplatypus7946]

Entertaining as the humorous portions were, while technically not the same thing, there are a growing number of people who don't have other mental issues (at least not officially diagnosed mental issues) but believe people they know have been replaced with impostors or that this is a real, regularly occurring thing. Isn't it great how we've advanced to the point where we're socially engineering delusion at the level of traumatic brain injury....

[@naturalistmind]

I think im a clone now ( a clone now) because theres always one of me just walking around...