You believe thousands of things.

How many have you tested?

How Do You Know?

An interactive journey through science, logic, perception, intuition, evidence and the architecture of truth. Not a course in becoming a machine — a training in discernment for a mind that is emotional, symbolic, embodied and often wrong.

The central idea

Truth does not require the destruction of the irrational mind. It requires learning when to trust intuition, when to doubt it, and how to test what we think we know.

A dream

may reveal something psychologically important without proving an external event.

An intuition

may generate an excellent hypothesis without proving the hypothesis.

A measurement

may be powerful evidence while still carrying real uncertainty.

EXPERIENCE → INTERPRETATION → HYPOTHESIS → EVIDENCE → CONCLUSION → CONFIDENCE

Chains, not facts

Knowledge is a network of relations

The eyewitness chain

  1. 01Memory
  2. 02Eyewitness testimony
  3. 03Criminal justice
  4. 04False memory
  5. 05Confidence ≠ accuracy

The discovery chain

  1. 01Intuition
  2. 02Hypothesis
  3. 03Experiment
  4. 04Evidence
  5. 05Bayesian updating
  6. 06Theory

The mystical chain

  1. 01Experience
  2. 02Phenomenology
  3. 03Interpretation
  4. 04Metaphysical claim
  5. 05Evidence required

The knowledge universe

Eight domains to work through

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