The Difference Between Explaining and Predicting

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There's a big difference between explains something that happened and predicting something that will happen. This is the point of experiment and I put that in the paper in the dress paper like well for true really clean of the understand this we have to be able to create it right nowWe can't create it so maybe you don't understand it's what we thought science right has several levelsTheory of evolution came in it explains why we see these different thingsyou know in an underlying framework but then there's prediction from that from the explanation, manipulation which he doesn't call anymore because of the reputation crisis or control if you're able to do to create the effect.

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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