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Why We Love Surprises

Hidden Brain

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The Blind Spot in the Movie

We assume that the characters in the movie, are seeing andhe ing and thinking what we see and hear and think. Cognitive scientists call it the curse of knowledge. As far as vera is concerned, this blind spot, imagining that other people think like we think,This is the mother of all blind spots. They ways see what they want to see. They don't underget. Here's a thing, we don't notice anything strange ourselves. We leap to a conclusion about what’s going on. But really, the mother can't see him because he's a ghost, as a dead guy. He just sits there, seeing whatever he wants to see. The psychologist doesn

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