"The User Illusion" shows our conscious mind processes only a tiny fraction of available information., the quest to understand"reality" has been the perennial watermark of human intellectual evolution. Yet, even today, this remains a mystery that is built upon perceptual and cognitive threads., we can begin to appreciate how limited our conscious perception truly is.
Even within the confines of our visual perception, it's important to realize that what we see is but a narrow slice of a much larger, more complex reality. Our peripheral vision blurs the edges, limiting our focus to only a fraction of our surroundings. Likewise, the parallax effects in our eyes give us an illusion of depth, but it's still a simplified, two-dimensionalof a three-dimensional world.
This understanding has profound implications when we consider the role of AI in augmenting human cognition.