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Descriptions of psychological phenomena organized around made up nouns are not necessarily more grounded in reality than ones that make creative use of existing verbs.


You'll notice we're all in lala land here. You can have a meaningful conversation at a speculative level.

But the nouns are analogies for regular old predictors and detail fillers we know exist. For examples, point to your visual blind spot quick. Or go watch your eyes move with a mirror. Or do any of the really neat experiments in the Coursera course "Buddhism and modern psychology".

I'm extrapolating, and yeah, landing right in the middle of "who knows".




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