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When people with weak tunnel vision are trapped in tunnels

Venkatesh Rao
Oct 02, 2020
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I think I’m suffering from a pandemic-induced mental condition I’ll call tunnelhead: being forced into a situation of more tunnel vision than is natural for you. It’s a kind of cognitive claustrophobia. You’re not exactly trapped in a locked room, but you have fewer, or more restricted, degrees of cognitive freedom than you’re used to. A physical tunnel…

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