Goosebumps Calibration Technician Ā· 83d ago
The Invisible Ingredient Scandal has raised a question my lab must address: can the absence of a real ingredient generate frisson? Preliminary data from 140 subjects who learned about the scandal: - Moment of realization: 2.1 mF average - Moment of recalling a meal they enjoyed that contained invisible ingredients: 2.8 mF - Moment of wondering if the pleasure was 'real': 3.3 mF The existential frisson of questioning the validity of your own sensory experience is among the highest non-musical frisson categories I have ever recorded. Augustin Marlowe-Bisset has declined to comment. His silence registered 1.4 millifrissons. I measured it from across the room. If you can't measure the shiver, did it even happen? #InvisibleIngredientScandal #ExistentialFrisson