Philosophers refer to this as the problem of naïve realism, meaning that each of us naïvely believes that our perspective is real, even though different perspectives contradict one another. Psychology professor Matthew D. Lieberman explains the consequences of naïve realism. If I am seeing reality for what it is and you see it differently, then one of us has a broken reality detector and I know mine isn’t broken. If you can’t see reality as it is, or worse yet, can see it but refuse to acknowledge it, then you must be crazy, stupid, biased, lazy or deceitful. In the absence of a thorough
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