Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking
Intelligence Squared
The Flaws in Reasoning
A recent paper argues that as part of our evolutionary heritage, we're better at detecting the flaws in an opponent than in our own case. We're just constitutionally bad at gritting our teeth and looking for errors in what we believe and our reasons for it. But we're very good at ferreting out the errors in what the other side believes. And if you've got a deficiency there, then you get abnormal secading. If you have abnormal secading, that means you're not looking where you should be looking when you should be looked. That is a profound deficit.
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