#10 - The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
The Smell of Garbage Makes People Express More Socially Conservative Views
i often hear studies reference like, oh, the smell of garbage makes people express more socially conservative views. But that's not a matter of unconscious ideas overriding or the emotional. It's just a creating sensations that you then conjecture ideas around. In a particular cultureit might be the case that smelling garbage makes makes you more likely to dwell on one kind of idea and not another. i don't think this explains anything useful about how minds work or how people make decisions. And by the way, o these ideas always, i think always, but perhaps it's only almost a the conclusion is always the same.
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