Why We're So Good at Identifying the Flaws in Our Own Arguments

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We we are very bad at identifying the flaws in our own arguments. We should really rely on other people to do that for us, and we can do that for them. I had mercy on the podcas last year. And mercy kind of shows actually, we're not that gullible,. i'm always writing about colts, right? It's amazing we can even read anything, or even get out of bed. So seemingly so flaw and yet we do right, right and e right, right, right. Thati made me coarse correct about how i think what we should be doing that sceptic society or larger, you know, the teaching of critical thinking.

In this conversation about her new book, the acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul explodes the myth that the brain is an all-powerful, all-purpose thinking machine that works best in silence and isolation. We are often told that the human brain is an awe-inspiring wonder, but its capacities are remarkably limited and specific. Humanity has achieved its most impressive feats only by thinking outside the brain: by “extending” the brain’s power with resources borrowed from the body, other people, and the material world. The Extended Mind tells the stories of scientists and artists, authors and inventors, leaders and entrepreneurs — Jackson Pollock, Charles Darwin, Jonas Salk, Friedrich Nietzsche, Watson and Crick, among others — who have mastered the art of thinking outside the brain. It also explains how every one of us can do the same, tapping the intelligence that exists beyond our heads — in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships.