concept Updated 2026-07-24 Tags: Psychology, Perception, Epistemology, Cognition

Subjective Reality Construction / 主观现实建构

Subjective reality construction is 132.争论与说服:我们为什么吵架,怎么才算赢?’s core claim that perceived reality is a brain-built model rather than a direct copy of the outside world. The episode uses the dress-color dispute, kitten visual-development experiments, restored-sight examples, and the crayon-box task to show that perception depends on sensory input, expectation, prior experience, and perspective-taking capacity.

The concept extends Social Reality Construction / 社会现实建构 from social judgment into perception itself. The source does not deny external reality; it argues that people encounter it through models, and those models can make disagreement feel like evidence that the other person is irrational even when the deeper problem is different construction.

Key Claims

  • Felt certainty is not proof that perception is unmediated.
  • Experience shapes what information becomes signal rather than noise.
  • Disagreement can begin before explicit ideology, at the level of what the person experiences as real.
  • Rational Humility matters because even direct-seeming perception may already include interpretation.

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