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233 | Hugo Mercier on Reasoning and Skepticism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Reason
"I'm too old to really imagine that I will have a dramatic change of my mind on these things," he says. "It's a mission to imagine an alternative world in which, you know, some new experimental data comes up and that completely leads logically to a change in the framework" The problem is that reason is not by far the only cognitive mechanism we have or are we used? We do have an incentive to some extent to appear maybe more coherent than we are,. He adds: 'We've all been a bad face'
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