The Dangers of Disagreement

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The danger for me is not so much that we disagree because we can argue our way out of that. We don't treat disagreement as worthy of argument the dress the shoe yanny and laurel socks and crocs they all show that we can have an opinion about something that doesn't feel like a law unfiltered unassailable truth on the internet people can form tribes around that feeling flat earth communities QAnon anti-vaxxers neo-nazis liberals conservatives and so on. Once you are a member of a tribe belonging goals will always motivate your reasoning more than accuracy goals will be as as surf pad shows we are only consciously aware of the result of these processes not

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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