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I definitely agree - it's a particularly curious illusion. Some researcher seems to think so as well.
But the point remains that it can be explained by understanding the illusion, and that projecting "true color" onto the real world is a mistake.
Yes, I agree that projecting "true color" onto the real world is a mistake. I'm not sure those commenters are actually doing that, though. I think your interpretation of the Buzzfeed argument is something like this:
Whereas my interpretation, I feel, is slightly more charitable:
In other words, I feel that the dicussion isn't quite as full of fallacious reasoning as you seem to be making it out to be (in that it could interpreted in a different way that makes it about something other than the mind projection fallacy). Of course, I could be wrong. What do you think?
I actually trust your interpretation over mine. I haven't read through it too carefully and sense that my frustration has interfered with my interpretation a bit.