I don’t think it’s possible to think you found your keys, without having actually found them.
Sure it is.
You may have found some other keys you had in your house that are not the ones you were looking for, and mistaken them for the right keys on sight.
You may have put some object in your pocket, and now believe that it was your keys, when in fact you’re remembering the incident of putting your keys in your pocket yesterday. The object in your pocket today is your phone, which you usually put in your backpack.
You may be schizophrenic and suffering a hallucination. The business man’s job is giving the business. You are not the business man.
Your keys may have been missing due to the action of an intelligent agent, who has also substituted false keys for them. For instance, your child or roommate may be playing a prank on you.
You may have become distracted by some other pressing goal (say, swatting a mosquito that is about to bite you) and failed to continue the search for your keys. Then, upon absent-minded reflection (what was I doing? why did I come into this room?) you rationalize that you stopped looking for the keys because you found them.
Human brains are not just biased; they’re also glitchy.
(The doubt “Maybe these are not my keys, maybe they are X” is canceled by “maybe these are not X, maybe they are my keys” and the test is to go try to lock the door with them. You can’t lock the door with your phone.)
Sure it is.
You may have found some other keys you had in your house that are not the ones you were looking for, and mistaken them for the right keys on sight.
You may have put some object in your pocket, and now believe that it was your keys, when in fact you’re remembering the incident of putting your keys in your pocket yesterday. The object in your pocket today is your phone, which you usually put in your backpack.
You may be schizophrenic and suffering a hallucination. The business man’s job is giving the business. You are not the business man.
Your keys may have been missing due to the action of an intelligent agent, who has also substituted false keys for them. For instance, your child or roommate may be playing a prank on you.
You may have become distracted by some other pressing goal (say, swatting a mosquito that is about to bite you) and failed to continue the search for your keys. Then, upon absent-minded reflection (what was I doing? why did I come into this room?) you rationalize that you stopped looking for the keys because you found them.
Human brains are not just biased; they’re also glitchy.
(The doubt “Maybe these are not my keys, maybe they are X” is canceled by “maybe these are not X, maybe they are my keys” and the test is to go try to lock the door with them. You can’t lock the door with your phone.)