282. Anil Seth on the Hard Problem of Consciousness, the Self, and the Essence of Volition
The Michael Shermer Show
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How to Trick People Into Doing Something
i like that it shows that humans are not hopelessly irrational, subject to cognitive biases and emotions. We can reason our way ah to an understanding of the world, but not perfectly. So we need the tools of science rationality all the list of cognitive biases that we should look out for. And so i was thinking about this with with this image. I'll use it from the phone. The chequer board. A illusion that doesn't come out very good. Oh, yes, it's in your book there. That's a little bit better. It reminds me of all these social the sort of guerilla theatre, social psyche experiments in the sixties and seventies,. Of smoke
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