Theory off the top of my head: The causation is in the wrong direction. People who are rational are far more likely to be very systems-oriented, have limited social experiences as children (by having different interests and/or being too dang smart), be highly introverted, and other factors that correlate with being around other people a lot less than your typical person. There’s nothing wrong with our hardware per se, it’s just that we missed out on critical training data during the learning period,
Anecdotal: I have mild prosopagnosia. I have a lot of trouble recognising people outside their expected context, I make heavy use of non-facial cues. I’m pretty good at putting specific names to specific faces on demand when it feels important enough, although see prev point about expected context. I don’t feel like I use anything resembling Bayesian reasoning, I feel like I have the same sense of recognition that I imagine most people have, it’s just less dependent on seeing their face and more on other traits (most typically voice and manner of movement).
Theory off the top of my head: The causation is in the wrong direction. People who are rational are far more likely to be very systems-oriented, have limited social experiences as children (by having different interests and/or being too dang smart), be highly introverted, and other factors that correlate with being around other people a lot less than your typical person. There’s nothing wrong with our hardware per se, it’s just that we missed out on critical training data during the learning period,
Anecdotal: I have mild prosopagnosia. I have a lot of trouble recognising people outside their expected context, I make heavy use of non-facial cues. I’m pretty good at putting specific names to specific faces on demand when it feels important enough, although see prev point about expected context. I don’t feel like I use anything resembling Bayesian reasoning, I feel like I have the same sense of recognition that I imagine most people have, it’s just less dependent on seeing their face and more on other traits (most typically voice and manner of movement).