WiM043 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 1 | Consciousness, Intelligence, and Relevance Realization
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Is Your Attention Relevant to You?
Intelligence is a balance between generalizability and specificity. Here's the problem, that very process that is helping you be so adaptive is also making you prone to self deception. Oka let me give example, a concrete example, playing chess. What's the search space for chess? How many possible ways can a game of chess go? Well it's given by the formula f to the d, the number of moves you can make at any time,. So one of the things you can do is shrink space by making salient, or finding salient, certain aspects of the chess bork. They bias royal attention because they can't search all the possibilities. And they're correctly thinking, well
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