The Importance of Social Agreement

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Pascal says that social agreement is incredibly important to calibrate yourself. He argues that we are not really in a post-truth world but it's a post-trust world brought about by moving into polarized partisan tribal politics and thinking, he says. Pascal: "I don't know who I can trust andWho I can trust I don't really know anybody"

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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