#epistemology #rationality # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Diverging from Epistemic consensus #to-digest It’s more efficient to go from epistemic consensus and expand from that than starting off your own semantically far grounds >The cortical columns, in their world-modeling activities, work semiautonomously. What “we” perceive is a kind of democratic consensus from among them. >~ [[Jeff Hawkins]] The brain is suspected to have a consensus among all the different building blocks of [[Philosophy/Rationality/Intelligence|intelligence]], in human culture, we all agree that this is a "tree" >This is one of the reasons why the binding problem is considered a mystery, but we have proposed an answer: columns vote. Your perception is the consensus the columns reach by voting. >~ [[Jeff Hawkins]] ![[Pasted image 20220627073010.png]] But consensus does not always properly [[The Map is not the Territory|map the territory]]. >But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought >~ [[George Orwell]] Humanity consensus can also be called [[Memetic|memetic]], and we might lose [[Informational consensus in the decentralised future of intelligence|informational consensus]] due to [[AI generated information is not necessarily evil|hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence]] in the near future. # External links