late onset epilepsy
I once heard Huberman state, in a podcast, something like: the human visual system "loves" movement and flashing, or changes in the field of vision, or something like that [0]. This seems similar to the statement that Harold Shipman is Britain's "best" serial killer, in that it contains a presumptive and incorrect value judgement. More neutrally, one might say that the human visual system "pays attention to" movement, flashing, changes in the field of vision. One doesn't have to be an expert in evolutionary biology to hypothesise that this may be related to threat assessment, and is thus not just distracting, but stressful, under many circumstances. [0] youtube videos are not all that searchable by text, at least within a video, but possibly somewhere in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObtW353d5i0 (warning: contains touting) Why, then, is it permitted to pollute public spaces with all sorts of flashing lights trying to grab people's attent...