My takeaway from the election

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You perceive your epistemic bubble. You are striving to pierce it.

The Epistemic Bubble

American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce had pointed out how belief formation rests on an emotional factor which cannot be ignored: the irritation of doubt. Such irritation occurs wheneverwe are in need of knowing something we don’t know, or trying tomake sense of some new unexplained signs, and so on. The basic concept of doubt can be considered as a red line connecting the most primitive kind of pragmatic perplexities with the highest intellectual and philosophical attitudes. The cognitive irritation coming from doubt is the state of cognition that prompts us to advance hypotheses and believe them in a wide range of situations: it happens when an agent wonders about who or what produced that crackle she just heard in the bush behind her, but also when she thinks about how to improve the reception of the cellphone she just bought, or when she keeps coming back to guessing what caused the bruises on her neighbor’s forehead.

Also discussed here (the place where I learned the term epistemic bubble).