1/ A quick thread on perception: I just had a retinal migraine. I get 'em about 1-2 times a year. They are *fucking weird*. It's a sudden-onset and soon-dissipating blindspot. But, just like your normal optic nerve blind spot, it's *out-of-awareness*.
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6/ There are several dots in this image, but you can't perceive them all at once. If I asked you to identify the position of dots, you could do so. But, your visual system *doesn't* make it obvious. It's unstable. You have to abstract and extract information.pic.twitter.com/IXASOBAzRS
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7/ I think the way our brain handles beliefs may work the same way. We like to think our belief systems are coherent. But, introspection is hard. We're limited to only a few mental concepts (e.g. 7 +/- 2) at a time.
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8/ When we want to, we expend effort to resolve our Belief Dilemmas (check out Abelson 59) in a piecemeal fashion. But, working memory constrains so things disappear form awareness quiet easily. And, like with vision, we don't necessarily *notice* when important things vanish.
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