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#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The on-Rush of Newness
The snow globe image is quite useful. What's going on when you get that sort of on-rush of novelty, as you, as you nicely put it there, is really the relaxation of entrenched predictions. Since it's not being gathered into the accepted buckets, then new patterns can be detected and new shapes can form. It's not that they form without the benefit of predictions. It's just that the predictions that can now be recruited to deal with that information are not the ones that were being recruited before.
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