In your work, you say that reasoning doesn't necessarily lead to more accurate estimates of correctness or even superior moral judgments. So if that's true, what is from your perspective the purpose of reasoning? That's a very good point. So the, what we're saying is thatreasoning doesn't do that for the individual reasoner so that when people are trying to reason on their own, usually, or at least in many cases, it's going to have either no consequence because people will just find reasons for whatever they were thinking and not do anything more. Or in some cases, it can even lead to bad consequences. And I think then again that a lot of experimental and historical evidence
On this episode we discuss the psychology of arguing and interview both Jeremy Shermer and Hugo Mercier. Afterward, I eat an orange chocolate chip cookie and read a news story about reading your partner's mood in old age.
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