
Episode 23: Celeste Kidd, UC Berkeley, on attention and curiosity, how we form beliefs, and where certainty comes from
Generally Intelligent
How Do You Know if You Believe Something Is More Predominant Than Not?
If we specialize a lot, then that also makes us more dependent on each other than our species or another members. And I think our belief system is also reflect some of that also. Like if you don't know how to get ensued, I am necessarily dependent on other humans that do. So yeah, we're really interdependent and that has really important implications for all of the technologies that try to capture and engage human attention by giving us social information. That could help explain why humans are so different in terms of the degree to which we specialize.
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