the Way of the Showman 18 - Suckers Are Born Every Minute
This week we talk about deception. By learning about the many ways our senses, our thinking, and our limited understanding of logic can be used to deceive us, I am hoping to get us all a little more Carny Wise. We look at how our senses can deceive us. We look at cognitive biases, and logical fallacies. I really think we need to get our ducks in order and use the Way to get Wise to see through illusions. There are deceptions everywhere along the Way, in real life, on social media, and any other media, the only way we can protect ourselves is to change our culture, to get wise to the machination of deception and illusion. This is our project, this is the Way.
Make sure you click the inattentional blindness link! Watch it before you get to it in the episode.
Show notes.
Some cool ways to explore the blind spots in your eyes.
Finland teaching kids about misinformation and fake news in primary school.
One of our senses beyond the five - the vestibular system - our balance organ.
What our eye's blind spots are according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
A chart of some cognitive biases.
An even bigger chart of 188 biases
Generally about cognitive biases.
Why change blindness happens to us.
Intentional blindness article.
List of logical fallacies
Awakening from the meaning crisis - this is a 50 hour course by University of Toronto professor John Vervaeke. It’s epic and I am really enjoying it!
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