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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Evolution of Perception
We developed reasons to sort of persuade our fellow human beings. This gives us this wonderful set of abilities, but also an obvious set of exploits that are available,. So does this make us susceptible to being persuaded of false things by people who are very good at such techniques? I don't think so because I think the way these mechanisms should work is they should err on the side of caution. If you don't really understand an argument, then you should just stay put and stay with your prior belief. And so the person should not manage to change your mind.
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