Ik heb Damasio al vaker aangehaald, en zijn boek Feelings as the origin of brain
Al denken we van wel, in de praktijk blijken we niet alleen vnl gevoelsmatig te reageren, maar zelfs zonder gevoel/emoties niet eens rationele keuzes te kúnnen maken.
Eagleman "The Brain" part 4. How do I decide?
In dit gesprek hebben Tyson en Dawkins het over rationeel denken en logica en 'gut feeling'.
Tyson concludeert "our brain is not wired for logic" en "we as a human organism must have a great challenge to think rationally, logically, scientifically".
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De meeste mensen denken dat intelligente mensen rationeler of logischer kunnen denken. Maar het kan juist tegenwerken.
Hoe slimmer hoe makkelijker te bedotten. En hoe lastiger te overtuigen.
https://michaelshermer.com/weird-things/excerpt/
Why do smart people believe weird things?
My Easy Answer will seem somewhat paradoxical at first: Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
As we have already seen, there is a wealth of scientific evidence in support of this thesis, but none more so than two extremely powerful cognitive biases that make it difficult for any of us to objectively evaluate a claim. These biases, in fact, are especially well manipulated by smart people: the Intellectual Attribution Bias and the Confirmation Bias.