The Future Sermer Is a Different Son Thearnt Germer

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There's no libertarian free will. Almost nobody thinks that, where there's a little homunculus in your head making decisions. You can read your book and go, ok, oi, to be careful of my motivated reasoning going forward. The future termer is not going to be subject to those de biases, because i'm aware of it now. So the future sermer is a different son thearnt germer. And we're all like that. It's a kind of freedom, but it's set a galan.

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.