Oscar_Cunningham comments on Question about brains and big numbers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 17 April 2012 01:22:59PM *  13 points [-]

Mind Projection Fallacy

The mind projection fallacy is confusing properties of your thoughts with the environment, in this case it would be to think that because your imagination of something was imperfect then it really was fuzzy in the real world. Confusing the way you think with the way others think is called the typical mind fallacy.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 April 2012 01:27:09PM 3 points [-]

Oops.