https://aneeshsathe.com/tags/cognitive-biases/Recent content in Cognitive Biases on Aneesh SatheHugoen-usMon, 07 Jul 2025 06:23:52 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/the-mind-as-semi-solid-smoke/Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:23:52 +0000https://aneeshsathe.com/the-mind-as-semi-solid-smoke/<p>This post <a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/thinking-with-places/">continues</a> <a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/chatbots-bats-broken-oracles/">the series</a> on Socratic Thinking, turning the space-and-place lens inward to examine the mind itself. Human minds can be thought of as an imperfect place with the ability to create their own insta-places to navigate ambiguity.</p> <figure > <img src="https://aneeshsathe.com/media/2025/07/image-from-rawpixel-id-3049980-jpeg.jpg" alt="Image"> </figure> <p>Exploration in any real or conceptual space needs navigational markers with <em>sufficient</em> meaning. Humans are biologically predisposed to seek out and use navigational markers. This tendency is rooted in our neural architecture, emerges early in life, and is shared with other animals, reflecting its deep evolutionary origins 1,2 .  Even the simplest of life performing chemotaxis uses the signal-field of food to navigate.</p>