In the next episode you'll see how a late night madcap trip to Walgreens to buy crocks and tube socks combined with marijuana grow lights inside Pascal's attic. A divisive photograph of a perceptually ambiguous dress led two researchers to build the nuclear bomb of cognitive science out of socks and crocks. And what they learned from that research led to his new theory which he calls surf pad which stands for whenever you combine substantial uncertainty with ramified or forked priors or assumptions you will get disagreement.
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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