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From the Vault: The Moses Illusion

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Is There Semantic Similarity Between the Words?

i feel like a avacatos and artichokes have some similar vowel sounds, but they sound different enough to me that i'm immediately struck. And then, as we've been saying, semantic similarity are the concepts somehowi lar or related, wold we put them in a kind of meaning nextus together in the brain? So anyway, it's just this interesting fact about our brains, that something about being asked a question like this, or trying to process a sentence like the questions in these studies, causes us to ignore the act that the contents of the sentence conflict with things that we know to be true.

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