@Hoe_math Explains why Communication is so Frustrating | “YOUR WELCOME” #435

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Good afternoon. Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour. Guys, we need a long intro here because we're going to be going deep into philosophical stuff on this episode. And let me explain what we're going to be talking about. So recently Einrand when she uh obviously was very big into

politics and towards the end of her life she was much more interested in epistemology which is the study of how do we know what we know and when I first started reading Rand I could not care less about any of that and in recent months I'd say I've very much gone down this rabbit hole because I came to the

epiphany that different people think in different ways and when you say it out loud it's pretty obvious But on the other hand, we don't use that as an operating assumption. And I think that's one of the big reasons people talk past each other. It's that people who are significantly less intelligent than you are perceiving the information

in significantly different ways to the point at which you cannot productively have a conversation other than using enormous effort to try to translate it into their terms. Uh the analogy I had is think about vision, right? Human beings have a certain kind of vision. Flatworms only see light and dark. Dogs can't see gradations of color. Mantis

shrimps see uh vision across think seven spectrums, many of which we do not see. Point being, they're accessing the same data, but they're parsing it in significantly different ways. And when I started, and you see this a lot on social media, which to my understanding, and we'll talk to my our guest in a