The Dress: A Crisis of the Mind

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The dress is a beautiful fantastic understandable relatable lesson in what is the truth and how to brains make sense of it. i can vouch for this myself because in reporting the story i went to ny u sat down with a neuroscientist who has the dress saw it myself in person and i can tell you it's black and blue but that's almost irrelevant Because the photo the infamous photo in your brain in other people's brains in general is not black and blue and it's also not white and gold and that makes this image a rare thing indeed one cognitive scientist told me that maybe one in ten billion images out there in the wild is what they would call perfectly ambiguous. thanks to some

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

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