The Power of Unambiguous Experience

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I would say a lifetime of experience is integrated to get the prior. We don't know that we don't know how long that is so I mentioned an experiment right now where we give people different experience of light and see if that shifts the perception of the dress or the crocs. If we could get the people who see this gray another way of estimating the light instead of the white socks but something else that makes it unambiguously clear what the light is they would be able to see it as pink too.

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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