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Feeling foolish within yourself (that is, without the anticipation of an audience) can be the internal recognition that you were wrong.

It arises when your prior beliefs conflict with reality and you are forced to update your model.

The discomfort comes from ego attachment to the prior state and a temporary drop in self-trust.

If you remove the ego factor, it becomes neutral error correction (learning) rather than “foolishness.”

The challenge is when all this is based on uncertain or inferred data. Confusion can arise.

I’m going to call this Bayesian Oscillation, meaning; iterative posterior adjustment under ambiguous likelihood weighting, experienced subjectively as cognitive instability.

Which sounds suspiciously like a cat trying to cover its shit, on concrete.