The power of technobabble is that it illustrates the illusion of knowledge. Our actual understanding of how the world around us works is rather shallow. If I were to ask you to build a bicycle from scratch, could you do that? What about differential gears or a carburetor or the crab cycle, or I don't know, just about everything in life?
In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast we discuss the illusion of knowledge with Christopher Chabris, co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla." After that, we eat a triple-ginger molasses cookie while discussing non-believed false memories.
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