When to Tell Your Thoughts

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Ali Alavi says, some people prefer not to tell their thoughts because of others' reactions. Varun Narasimashar: You've repeatedly expressed your skepticism of invoking the typicality of our own perspective in cosmology. There are any number of ways of being atypical, so we shouldn't assume anything about ourselves that isn't already known by other people and is based on what we have been able to learn from nature. Ali Alavi: I don't say every single thing in my head at all moments in time. I choose certain things to express and certain things not to express.

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