I don’t think that’s what’s happening in me or other people. Or at least, I don’t think it’s a full description. One reason I don’t, is that after I’ve e.g. been camping for a long time, with a lot of room for quiet, it becomes easier than it has been to notice that I don’t have to see things the way I’ve been seeing them. My priors become “less stuck”, if you like. I don’t see why that would be, on your (zhukeepa’s) model.
Introspectively, I think it’s more like, that sometimes facing an unknown hypothesis (or rather, a hypothesis that’ll send the rest of my map into unknownness) is too scary to manage to see as a possibility at all.
I agree an algorithm could do as you describe.
I don’t think that’s what’s happening in me or other people. Or at least, I don’t think it’s a full description. One reason I don’t, is that after I’ve e.g. been camping for a long time, with a lot of room for quiet, it becomes easier than it has been to notice that I don’t have to see things the way I’ve been seeing them. My priors become “less stuck”, if you like. I don’t see why that would be, on your (zhukeepa’s) model.
Introspectively, I think it’s more like, that sometimes facing an unknown hypothesis (or rather, a hypothesis that’ll send the rest of my map into unknownness) is too scary to manage to see as a possibility at all.