My best guess gears-level model of what’s going on here
the “predictive processing engine” has quite rich model of the world / people / histories / … whatever
somewhat special domain into which it is “predicting” are thoughts / concepts / language / “the voice in your head” (somewhat overlapping with “S2”)
with “words on top of your tongue”, the PP system is trying to find a structure in the “thinking/verbal” domain which would be fitting the “PP” structure (many people have pretty specific sense of prediction error if they are missing the right word, which drops when they find it / the word “fits”)
generally directing attention toward such interface can greatly increase it’s throughput/precision
And so here are some caveats
This isn’t as directly grounded in reality as it may seem
The nature of PP is such that model adjustment will be going on both sides (e.g. if I’ll be looking at cloud shapes in the sky, and some cloud will start resonating with the concept/word Stegosaurus, my perception will change all the way down toward noticing plate-resembling parts of the cloud, etc.)
In particular with probing in more detail, the PP machinery will generally be able to generate more details; in case of memories, as you note, the problem is they they are mostly output of generative word model inside your head, not of the external world; if your generative world is precise enough and your attention was focused on something while experiencing it, the recall could be quite reliable
The relation of the language/concept space with reality is somewhat complicated… notice that in the above given example with clouds the concept of Stegosaurus is a result of pretty impressive and big cultural computation which happened almost entirely outside of your head
So… while I generally like most of the specific advice, I don’t think truth-orientated thinking is a good label. In my view what’s a necessary ingredient for truth orientation, missing here, are strong links between anything happening inside the brain and “the rest of the reality”.
My best guess gears-level model of what’s going on here
the “predictive processing engine” has quite rich model of the world / people / histories / … whatever
somewhat special domain into which it is “predicting” are thoughts / concepts / language / “the voice in your head” (somewhat overlapping with “S2”)
with “words on top of your tongue”, the PP system is trying to find a structure in the “thinking/verbal” domain which would be fitting the “PP” structure (many people have pretty specific sense of prediction error if they are missing the right word, which drops when they find it / the word “fits”)
generally directing attention toward such interface can greatly increase it’s throughput/precision
And so here are some caveats
This isn’t as directly grounded in reality as it may seem
The nature of PP is such that model adjustment will be going on both sides (e.g. if I’ll be looking at cloud shapes in the sky, and some cloud will start resonating with the concept/word Stegosaurus, my perception will change all the way down toward noticing plate-resembling parts of the cloud, etc.)
In particular with probing in more detail, the PP machinery will generally be able to generate more details; in case of memories, as you note, the problem is they they are mostly output of generative word model inside your head, not of the external world; if your generative world is precise enough and your attention was focused on something while experiencing it, the recall could be quite reliable
The relation of the language/concept space with reality is somewhat complicated… notice that in the above given example with clouds the concept of Stegosaurus is a result of pretty impressive and big cultural computation which happened almost entirely outside of your head
So… while I generally like most of the specific advice, I don’t think truth-orientated thinking is a good label. In my view what’s a necessary ingredient for truth orientation, missing here, are strong links between anything happening inside the brain and “the rest of the reality”.