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#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Role of Perception Action Loops in Novelty
We're never presented with absolute genuine novelty. Even if an object came from Mars or somewhere like that and it landed beside the coke can, there's enough common patterns there in the sort of low-level sensory information for me to construct some kind of grip on its rough shape and its color. If you put me in a brand new kind of environment, the closest I can think of to this is when I first went diving. And yet over time, you're able to see an awful lot better. So what am I saying here about genuine novelty? I think the cases you're thinking of just aren't genuinely novel. It would be quite difficult to get on top of these things with
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