'Schizo' Content as Mass Epistemic Hypervigilance Delusions are characterised by paradoxically excessive levels of credulity and rigidity - adopting beliefs on minimal evidence, and holding steadfast

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Anomalous
Experience
Ostensive
Information
Ostensive
Information
Perceptual
Information
Testimonial
Perceptual Abnormalities
Information
Epistemic Vigilance Epistemic Hypervigilance
(Healthy Individuals) (Deluded Individuals)
Fig. 1. How are different sources of information weighed in belief formation? In healthy individuals (left panel), the scales are adaptively
tipped in favor of trusting perceptual evidence over ostensive evidence. This imbalance may be maladaptively exacerbated in deluded indi
viduals (right panel)