
Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from
Generally Intelligent
What Causes People to Acquire Certainties in Their Head?
After Lewis's study, after we had the results, I was like, we all started noticing that our language changing a little bit. So it seems like a lot of this acquiring of certainties driven by heuristics and driven by feedback of like, you were right,. And people kind of like develop this idea in their head. Do you have any sense of kind of like what is going on? Like what causes people to acquire this in their heads? Yeah. From a neuroscience perspective, I have less insight there. There are people working on this. Jan Dravowicz comes to mind. He actually has a paper. But certainty is useful for judging which direction you've seen the dots
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