> [!tldr] Your brain is a general in a bunker, working from a model it made based on reports from the scouts (your senses) A metaphor from [[How Minds Change]]... The [[central executive]] doesn't *really* know the outside world. It knows what is relayed to it by the senses. It creates a little model of the world filled with constructs from the patterns found in the information brought to us by our senses. The models are *necessarily* **not** reality. [[All Models are Wrong, Some Models are Useful]]. The models only represent the parts of reality that pass our [[Attentional Filter]]. That filter perceives only a small portion of the world around it. It works hard to filter down to those [[Pareto Principle|Vital Few]] things that give the general the best information they can to act in accordance with the goals and desires of the individual. The senses cannot give the general full reality, because they are limited (and so is the general). So reality, to us, doesn't *really* exist. When we encounter new information that doesn't fit with the model the general has been working with, we can update the model – or discount the thing as "fake news". This is part of the reason that [[Facts have lost their ability to gain consensus.]] **** # More ## Source - [[How Minds Change]]