>Making an assertion while being wrong does not mean you were guessing. You were simply wrong. This distinction is made up. It doesn't really exist in cognitiv

>Making an assertion while being wrong does not mean you were guessing. You were simply wrong. This distinction is made up. It doesn't really exist in cognitive science. What does "simply wrong" even mean really ? Why is it different ? >Yet the vast majority of the time, when we are not guessing, we are correct. We're not good at knowing when we're not guessing in the first place. Just because it doesn't feel that way to you doesn't mean it isn't so. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196841/ If you asked most of the participants in this paper, they'd tell you straight faced and fully believing how decision x was the better choice and give elaborate reasons why. The clincher in this paper (and similar others) isn't that the human has made a decision and doesn't know why. It's that he has no idea why he has made a decision but doesn't realize he doesn't know why. He believes his rationalization. What you feel holds no water. >But it doesn’t really know what it knows Yeah and neither do people.