• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It makes sense, our inputs are imperfect and our brains are always interpreting and correcting. As a social species we use other people’s perceptions as another error correction method. We missee, mishear, misread, misremember… regularly

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, I guess I’m weird because while I’m definitely influenceable, I cannot see a world where I just swallow unlikely “facts” just because some people say them confidently. Unless those people are experts in a field or something, which is pretty opposite to online randos.