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My Chat with Cognitive Scientist Dr. Hugo Mercier - On Human Reasoning (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_519)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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The Enigma of Reason

In the enigma of reason, you argue that we didn't evolve this kind of domain general capacity to seek truth. But rather we evolved this reasoning capacity to win arguments. Maybe tell us a bit more about that from an evolutionary perspective. From an evolutionary point of view, it doesn't really explain why humans would be the only ones to be able to reason. It's also not clear how it's even possible in the first place to have one cognitive mechanism that would know better than all other ones.

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