34 | Paul Bloom on Empathy, Rationality, Morality, and Cruelty
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Power of System Two
In addition to the hodgepodge of heuristics and biases that you're talking about, there's also something else in our heads that's closer to an ideal reasoner. And I think system two is a really important part of the story. Psychologists like to say, look, people make all sorts of dumb mistakes and we talk all about these dumb mistakes. But here's what we're missing. We're missing the fact that I could tell it to you and we could laugh about it because there's another part of ourselves that knows that's a mistake.
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