Is Seeing Believing?
4 min readNov 3, 2023
The old adage seeing is believing needs to be revised.
Our expectations and our beliefs actually shape how we interpret the world.
It’s a common saying: “Seeing is believing.” We tend to think of it as a sign of reality, that our beliefs are only as solid as what we can experience directly. However, new research is showing that this old adage is not entirely true. Instead of seeing informing our…