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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Actionable Intelligence of Decision-Making

How can we use this view of how we rationalize our decision-making both to make better decisions but also to talk other people into changing their minds? I don't think it's any more subtle than that. One of the things that we've been taught over these last four years is you can't reason somebody out of a stance that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

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