Peter Principle: People in a hierarchy such as a business or government will be promoted until they suck at their jobs, at which point they will remain where they are. As a result, the world is filled with people who suck at their jobs.
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Apophenia: We impose our imaginations on arrangements of data, seeing patterns where no such patterns exist. A common form of Apophenia is…
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Narrative Fallacy: When we see a sequence of facts we interpret them as a story by threading them together into an imagined chain of cause & effect. If a drug addict commits suicide we assume the drug habit led to the suicide, even if it didn’t. Another form of Apophenia is…
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Pareidolia: For aeons predators stalked us in undergrowth & shadow. In such times survival favored the paranoid—those who could discern a wolf from the vaguest of outlines. This paranoia preserved our species, but cursed us with pareidolia, so we now see wolves even in the skies.pic.twitter.com/9pxdCZ4MrN
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And that’s it! There are many other ideas but these are the ones that came to mind first (availability bias), and I think they provide good springboards for understanding a wide range of phenomena. Feel free to reply with your own, and see if you can explain them in 1 tweet!
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I’d say human perception was more akin to virtual reality. 100% of it is made up. None of it is objective. We all live in (and feel the experience of) separate realities. Which is kind of handy to know. That we’re feeling our perception, not the “outside” world.
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The brain doesn't "invent" it. A model is generated to represent percept data. Beyond TV, given a discrete interpretation of light, we may apply the same logic to all visual perception. Additionally, you can use a Fourier transform to clearly demonstrate "spaces b/w words".
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