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What you perceive is a construction, not a recording. Your brain generates a model of reality shaped by expectation, culture, and attention — and it feels like truth precisely because the construction is invisible to you.
True humility is not thinking less of yourself but having an accurate model of your capabilities.
Before resolving a contradiction make the strongest possible case for each side.
When experts disagree the disagreement itself contains information about the limits of current knowledge. Expert contradiction is not a failure of expertise — it is a map of where the evidence runs out, where hidden variables lurk, and where your own epistemic work must begin. The most dangerous response is not confusion but premature certainty: picking one expert and ignoring the other destroys the signal the disagreement was carrying.
Resistance to certain feedback signals it touches an important blind spot.