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> I'm genuinely curious about what the gap in perception is.
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Feedback loop where current perception reinforces itself through future perception via confirmation bias (i.e., visiting a social group and noticing someone else saying that it's slow, which basically happens every day, but you might not have noticed otherwise) and behavior adjustment (i.e., your belief discourages you, so you don't try as hard to find things -- hence you find fewer things, which reinforces your initial belief).

In the Jello model of the brain in DeBono's "Mechanism of Mind", this is essentially the second phase. First, falling water dropped evenly in a pan lands on a "flawless" jello surface (a beginner's mind) with seemingly little reason to land in one place or another. But once valleys ("ideas") are formed, water tends to collect in those same spots in the future. The valleys can eventually become so steep that they collect water even when it is dropped on the opposite end of the pan.

Or without the cool analogy from a book you probably never read:

"The strongest reason for believing something is that you believed it before. It might've only taken the most minor feeling to start believing something, but momentum takes over from there to reinforce that belief."