Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

It’s Back 2 Basics: Psychology edition! Do coins look bigger to poor people? Do hills look steeper to people wearing heavy backpacks? What’s the difference between perception and attention, or perception and judgment? David and Tamler discuss the long standing debate over whether our beliefs, desires, and past experience can penetrate our vision and change our visual perception. Plus some thoughts on the passing of Tamler’s favorite artist David Lynch.

Firestone, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). Cognition does not affect perception: Evaluating the evidence for “top-down” effects. Behavioral and brain sciences, 39, e229.

Cognitive Penetration and the Epistemology of Perception by Nico Silins

Bruner, J. S., & Goodman, C. C. (1947). Value and need as organizing factors in perception. The journal of abnormal and social psychology, 42(1), 33.

Fodor, Jerry A. "Precis of the modularity of mind." Behavioral and brain sciences 8.1 (1985): 1-5.

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Vizarro,
0:06.0	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	We're Americans. We don't quit just because we're wrong.
0:20.1	We just keep doing the wrong thing until it turns out right.
0:27.6	The great end boss has spoken.
0:31.6	Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:40.3	Who are you? Who are you?
0:42.3	Who are you?
0:43.3	A very bad man.
0:45.3	I'm a very good man.
0:47.3	Good man.
0:51.3	They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
0:55.5	May no attention tonight, man.
1:01.4	Anybody can have a brain?
1:05.2	You're a very bad man.
1:07.9	I'm a very good man.
1:09.5	Just a very bad wizard. Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. I'm Tam very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:12.3	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:14.3	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:16.5	Dave, Donald Trump, your boy, officially became president again yesterday.
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