Right. There are layers to expectation. And these layers can be stripped away (e.g. a dentist can be viewed as a dentist, or a human, or a mammal, or a system of cells, or a system of atoms, etc). Layers can also be added, if you habitually search for things in what you see.
And I think it is in fact those experiences we are most accustomed to that we are most susceptible to bias - we tend to always overlook the familiar.
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If this is true, why have we been most wrong for most of human history about that which is _outside_ of everyday experience? (E.g. the rest of the universe, the very big, the very small, etc.)
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Our models of the solar system are far less biased than our daily reads of the newspaper.
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