Mercier and Sperber's Enigma is largely responsible for the direction of the last 5 years of my self-education on cognitive biases, neuroscience, behavioral & evo psychology, and genetics. These subjects now seem inseparable. The idea that all reasoning is post-hoc is quite disruptive to the idea of self. I've since concluded that very f…
Mercier and Sperber's Enigma is largely responsible for the direction of the last 5 years of my self-education on cognitive biases, neuroscience, behavioral & evo psychology, and genetics. These subjects now seem inseparable. The idea that all reasoning is post-hoc is quite disruptive to the idea of self. I've since concluded that very few of my thoughts are actually my own. I'm okay with that. Being Homo Sapiens is wild.
Mercier and Sperber's Enigma is largely responsible for the direction of the last 5 years of my self-education on cognitive biases, neuroscience, behavioral & evo psychology, and genetics. These subjects now seem inseparable. The idea that all reasoning is post-hoc is quite disruptive to the idea of self. I've since concluded that very few of my thoughts are actually my own. I'm okay with that. Being Homo Sapiens is wild.