@ThinkingBone as someone who hallucinates now and again, I believe humans are generally oriented to build mental models that correspond & correctly predict reality, because it is useful for survival... otoh we have certain predictable biases like mild overconfidence which are also adaptive...
@ThinkingBone including willingness to go along w social misinformation to stay in alignment w others, amount of energy we put into thinking and/or investigating, biases towards skepticism, contrarian beliefs, or believing authority figures...
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