The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types and 2 molecules
Cognitive systems preferentially maintain existing beliefs and interpretive frameworks even when confronted with contradictory evidence or when the original evidentiary basis is explicitly eliminated.
The human brain automatically generates and perceives patterns, relationships, and regularities in sensory input prior to and often independent of conscious verification, subject to systematic biases such as confirmation bias that preferentially encode pattern-consistent information while filtering contradictory evidence.
When searching for disconfirming evidence, if your search could not have actually changed your mind, you performed a ritual not genuine disconfirmation—redesign the search until failure is possible.