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The Skeptics Guide #894 - Aug 27 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Language Is Not the Table

Cognitive psychology has always confused me as a discipline. It's like trying to understand the speech centers of the brain by studying language. I think biases are real phenomenon, representing algorithms that are actually in our brain. But they're not fundamental. They may be manifestations of more fundamental things that are happening,. Like how people fundamentally want to be loved or feel secure and whatever.

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