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You Are Not So Smart
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The Importance of Distance in Life
Your brain does not have distance information available at all that's NYU neuroscientist cognitive scientist and psychologist Pascal Wash. Over a lifetime you learn what is associated with distance so for instance you learn that things that are far away look bluer because of scattering of light in the atmosphere. You're going to return to this quite a bit for the rest of the episode but we're not going to dig into it quite yet except to say you are not so smart as an idea as a thing. It's sort of mission statement is you are unaware of how unaware you are and because of that you are the unreliable narrator in the story of your life.
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