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(Ep 10) - Book Club: The enigma of reason

Scott H Young Podcast

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Is There a Second Type 2 System?

Consider your visual system. This is a classic kind of intuitive and opaque. Some people might call it unconscious, but I'm trying to deliberately avoid that word because I think it has some connotations I don't like. But I'll call it opaque kind of inferential mechanism. So one of the classic ideas is that in our ancestral environment and throughout most of our life, we know that light typically comes from above. Now this concave and convexity is not an empirical fact. It's not something that is always true. And indeed you can get optical illusions where you do tricks of lighting or tricks of photography and make people think that something is inside out. Rather, they evolved to

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