Deep Dive: Knowing It Isn’t the Same as Seeing It
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This deep dive explores Julian Brown’s essay, “Knowing It Isn’t the Same as Seeing It,” examining why genuine perspective-taking is cognitively demanding and how abandoning the search for a single, “correct” objective reality transforms human connection.
* The Biological Default & False Binaries: The brain uses roughly 20% of the body’s energy and relies on cognitive shortcuts (heuristics) to conserve fuel. When faced with confusing behavior, our default survival instinct is to interpret it through our own mental models and slap simple binary labels on it (e.g., right vs. wrong…
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