You sometimes misspeak… and you sometimes misthink. That is, sometimes your cognitive algorithm a word, and the thought that seemed so unimpeachably obviousin your head… is nevertheless false on a second glance.
Your brain is a messy probabilistic system, so you shouldn’t expect its cognitive state to ever perfectly track the state of a distant entity.
I find this funny. I don’t know about your brain, but mine sometimes produces something closely resembling noise similar to dreams (admittedly more often in the morning when sleep deprived).
Note that a “distant entity” can be a computation that took place in a different part of your brain! Your thoughts therefore can’t perfectly track other thoughts elsewhere in your head—your whole brain is at all noisy, and so will sometimes distort the information being passed around inside itself.
You sometimes misspeak… and you sometimes misthink. That is, sometimes your cognitive algorithm a word, and the thought that seemed so unimpeachably obvious in your head… is nevertheless false on a second glance.
Your brain is a messy probabilistic system, so you shouldn’t expect its cognitive state to ever perfectly track the state of a distant entity.
I find this funny. I don’t know about your brain, but mine sometimes produces something closely resembling noise similar to dreams (admittedly more often in the morning when sleep deprived).
Note that a “distant entity” can be a computation that took place in a different part of your brain! Your thoughts therefore can’t perfectly track other thoughts elsewhere in your head—your whole brain is at all noisy, and so will sometimes distort the information being passed around inside itself.