
Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
Rationality Is Not Just a Cognitive Virtue, but a Moral One
Rationality is a reconciliation of our biased and incomplete notions into an understanding of reality that transcends any one of us. And i think it's, its such a beautiful way of describing one of the reasons why rationality is importantye. We are flawed primates. We have bigger brains than other other apes, but we're still saddled with lots of limitations cuse of our hardware in our evolutionary history. What we often do, and we try to become more rational, is to climb out of our or our self serving biases,. To come to an understanding of a truth as it really is, not as we wantid to be.
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