Yep. Our brains often take shortcuts and make independent associations among things and concepts for efficiency's sake. The trick is to recognize that this commonly happens for all of us (even the most brilliant) and then interrogate your own perceptions and memories accordingly
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Damn. Puts into even clearer perspective why psychedelics shake up perception as profoundly as they do! All that entropy slows down the reflexive grasping of the known.
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We can be so unreliable as observers.
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Sir, two questions: 1. What drugs are you on? 2. Where can I buy said drugs?
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in a time now past, "predictive text" would be explained with an analogy to human perception... but now, human perception is explained with an analogy to "predictive text"
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It's not even only our cognition either - even our sight works like this. It's making up and filling in as much as it properly perceives.
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