Outstanding article by @teppofelin debunking Kahneman and behavioural economics that focus on bias:
https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-really-blind-to-the-gorilla-on-the-basketball-court … @aeonmag
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There’s much fascinating, relevant research on attention and task-specific vision. (I’ve used these findings in arguments against computational rationalism for several decades…) Two recent-ish review-ish articles: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dana/Hayhoe.pdf … and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203425# …
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thanks for the papers. in terms of an academic angle on the argument, you can find more in these two Psych Bulletin & Review articles (with Jan Koenderink and Joachim Krueger), open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13423-016-1198-z … andhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-017-1333-5 …
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Thanks, these look excellent, and I will read them! I and others made similar arguments in the 1980s… I’m not sure why the point doesn’t ever sink in.
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Because it unravels something bigger, and they don’t know that there’s a rival epistemology (that retains things they want like realism, progress, etc.) to jump to. It feels like going into free-fall, where it seems like the very idea of things making sense is being attacked.
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Nicely put! That seems right
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