Sure, blind liver hypothesis isn’t as metal as BBH…but I’ll drink to that!

I like how it presents it as both ‘slow to detect’ and ‘an increasing ability to filter’ – either perspective you want to look at it!

“People with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information, say US researchers.”

“As a person’s IQ increases, so too does his or her ability to filter out distracting background motion and concentrate on the foreground.”

Heuristics all the way down?

In “The Wayward Mind” it was said that this capacity of focus depends on the frontal lobes, but also that an higher focus kills creativity and the possibility for new patterns to arise.

So higher IQ could simply mean a very specialized, focused mind whose flexibility and plasticity is terrible.

Perception, meaning the basic ability to sense something via the 5 senses is itself simply a method by which a person can understand something to have occurred and the brains ability to process occurrences in time gives us the consequence of causality and learned experiences. For example, I know if I clap, I’ll hear a noise.

Science tells us the underlying reason for things occurring, but the human brain still needs to take in those facts via the same senses that are themselves only able to describe some aspects of an occurrence. Since that layer of abstraction will always exist (recapitulation or summary of occurrence information). We will never know the full ‘truth’ of the occurrence.

What we take for truth is really just our perceptions and learned experiences working to make sense of a world that the human mind will never be able to fully understand due limits in sensory input.

I’ve had this thought floating around in my head for some time. The biggest problem with thinking about how we think is that there is literally nothing we can do about it. It’s nice to realize truth is relative in how we can understand and describe it, but in the course of life this thought process is completely useless. How can you plan anything if everything is relative? Oh, and I still believe there is an actual truth, we just won’t ever know it.

It seems fairly linear to me, and it’s my attempt at explaining BBT in the most simple and straightforward (non-specialist) way. Maybe it could be useful for you to read your own stuff as written by someone else.

At least it is useful to me as I always feel that what I manage to understand starts to slip away as soon I look elsewhere. So putting it down in a more stable form helps me freeing some of my mind.