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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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How to Be More Guilty and More Skeptical

People are often too gullible. They are too ready to believe things, he says. So we need to people to be more gullible and more skeptical. And I think there's possibly doing that. Facebook occasionally has said, well, we're trying, we're working on this. We're trying to reduce misinformation. But they have a horrible conflict of interest. Their conflict of interest is they make money by selling ads to people who get other people interested in watching. The best way for Facebook to make money is to say is to get people to say really extreme things,. Because that gets people excited. They pass it on. This is the profit operation for both Twitter and Facebook, get

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