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David McRaney || How Minds Change

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Substantial Uncertainty in Subjective Reality

The more exposure that a person had over their course of their life to things being overexposed in sunlight, the more they would subtract the luminance as if it was overexposed. So what I love about that is your life experiences have led to these priors. You're in an ambiguous moment, and then you disambiguate the ambiguous, and it resolves as this objective experience. But all you get is the last part of that processing chain,. The ambiguity never registers the fact thatyou disambiguatedNever registers how much uncertainty can lead to disagreement. It's called surf pad, substantial uncertainty in the presence of ramified or for prior assumptions lead to disagreements.

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