Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

And it's not objective.

It's all subjective.

It's just like a Bayesian thing.

You know, the modern language would be Bayesian priors.

I have various Bayesian priors, how I expect myself to be and how I expect other people to respond to me.

So Bayesian is a view of uncertainty in the world.

There's this famous vicar, British vicar, Thomas Bayes in the 17th century that started this called Bayesian, whereby I look at something and I try to infer, well, what's the underlying reason for it?

And I update my – based on certain observations that I make, I continuously have this running estimate what I think is really going on.

And this also includes my base assumption about the world, including political assumption, including assumption how will people react or what's the true motive of people.

So the point that she's trying to make with this perception box, it includes everything.

So a benign, funny example is – do you remember what was it called?

Hashtag the dress?

Oh, yeah.

Okay, so remember, so this was the dress that went viral in 2015.

It was a wedding dress where, if you looked at it, roughly, I can't remember the exact percentages, half the people saw it unambiguously as gold and white.

That's how I see it.

There's no question.

Same, yeah.

Okay, same.

But half of other people see it as blue and black.