Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from
Generally Intelligent
The Typical Mind Fallacy
The typical mind fallacy is the idea that we tend to assume that other people's minds work like ours and they don't. Even for a very basic concept, the name of an animal, I was like the name of a political figure, common, common concepts, what you're activating differs from the person that you're talking to. That's about the variability that exists even in very basic concepts across people.
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