Human perception is largely constructed by our mindsets and the categories we impose on the world, and by changing these interpretations, we can alter our physical reality.

“The point is that when you know you don't know then you pay attention”

Human perception is not a value-free observation of facts but is structured by narratives that act as weighting functions.

“a story is a description of the waiting function that someone applies to the facts. So for example, when you go to a movie and you see the protagonist in action, you watch how he attends to things and you watch how he conducts himself and you infer from that the manner in which he weights the facts ”