when we are born, we experience reality with very few “priors” – preexisting beliefs, expectations, conceptual schemas through which to filter what we see. And so a child’s experience is an endless explosion of vividness. Slowly we start to make sense of the world, we start to notice repeating patterns, we start to establish boundaries between “me”... See more

It’s a simple yet powerful thought: what we see might not be the same as what is, and in fact what we see has as much to do with what’s in front of us as our own nature as observers. Plato believed fervently that education and intellectual refinement were humankind’s highest virtue and redeemer. But it all begins with the ability to recognize your

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