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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of Rationality in the World

As I have grown older and whether or not wiser, my faith in human rationality has only diminished over time. So I'm very happy if you are going to be able to convince me otherwise. What are the reasons that we've had from psychology and elsewhere to start to doubt that we're personally, perfectly rational beings? It's a good way to begin. There's a lot of striking demonstrations from psychology that we aren't as smart as we think we are.

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