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Paul Thagard on cognition, consciousness, misinformation, balance

Thing in itself

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The Difference Between Real Information and Misinformation

Good science comes up with real information. 90% of what Donald Trump says is just stuff that's made up. Disinformation is misinformation in various ways, an intentional line. So the question is how do we turn misinformation and disinformation into real information? That's a process that I call re information. We're trying to recover or restore or basically fix the misinformation that's there.

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