People think they see the world as it is because they get the end product but a substantial portion of the prime and cortex up to 30% in a human is just doing this subcortical subconscious. In a moment of uncertainty looking at something that's ambiguous it doesn't feel like you're disambiguating, says Michael Wolraich. "It feels like the raw unfiltered unassailable truth whatever your personal truth may be," he adds.
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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