Human Perception
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project
2 statements about Human Perception, every show
Dr. Jim Loehr: The human brain discards sensory information contradicting preexisting beliefs
“We don't have direct contact with the real world. We have all this data streaming into our five sensory portals. And then our big neural processor has to make sense out of that. And there's a preference for making sense in terms of what's already been loaded i…”
Shanahan: Humans mistakenly project consciousness onto machines without actual agency
“We see someone there when there isn't, and of course that, for me, that was very interesting because it made me think about when we do that with machines, where we often, we do Maybe, you know, we think that there's someone at home when there isn't.”