Throw this on the heap of evidence that suggests that cognition and meaning are not based on the settling the truth or falsity of "statements". I thought that this research is really, really clever -- people don't process information in discrete "quanta" (i.e. statement by statement) but they process on the fly, and assess the value of competing options on a sliding scale of good/bad as the information arrives...
In other words, we're doing the best we can with the information we're given.
Cornell News: New mind model
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