Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!

Today, we know better. Biology and neuroscience have exposed the brain as a great deceiver.

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Unconscious biases drive us to believe and do things that the conscious mind explains in self-serving stories, making us appear more rational to ourselves than we really are. Modern science has taught us that rationality involves much more than just controlling the emotions and avoiding fallacies. Posted by Robert Todd Carroll at 6: Monday, February 4, the wisdom of not thinking too much.

This will be last blog post for Unnatural Acts that can improve your thinking. Instead of introducing another cognitive bias or logical fallacy, this final post will be devoted to considering when wisdom requires that we stop thinking altogether or that we stop gathering data to reflect on. Monday, January 28, change blindness.

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Change blindness is the failure to detect non-trivial changes in the visual field. The failure to see things changing right before your eyes may seem like a design fault, but it is actually a sign of evolutionary efficiency. The term 'change blindness' was introduced by Ronald Rensink in , although research in this area had been going on for many years.

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Experiments have shown that dramatic changes in the visual field often go unnoticed whether they are brought in gradually, flickered in and out, or abruptly brought in and out at various time intervals. The implication seems to be that the brain requires few details for our visual representations; the brain doesn't store dozens of details to which it can compare changes Simons and Levin: The brain is not a video recorder and it is not constantly processing all the sense data available to it but is inattentive to much of that data, at least on a conscious level.

Monday, January 21, bias blind spot. The bias blind spot was described by Princeton University psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues as the tendency to perceive cognitive and motivational biases much more in others than in oneself. Sean rated it liked it Aug 14, David Hurtubise rated it it was amazing Sep 16, Craig Thompson rated it liked it May 22, Mark Evans rated it liked it May 01, Mary J Adler rated it liked it Oct 05, Fourat Janabi rated it really liked it Dec 30, Eddie King rated it really liked it Feb 21, JSA rated it really liked it Jun 23, Kevin rated it liked it Jan 21, Mesut rated it really liked it Aug 11, Jason Korbus rated it really liked it Apr 09, Thomas rated it really liked it Jul 11, Roger is currently reading it Dec 10, Miranda Hale marked it as to-read Apr 01, Jeremy Frens marked it as to-read May 04, Isil Arican marked it as to-read May 27, Steven marked it as to-read Jul 08, Amanda Bien Aime marked it as to-read Jul 18, Stu marked it as to-read Aug 19, Cathryn added it Feb 15, Rosa marked it as to-read Feb 21, Robert marked it as to-read Apr 03, Liam marked it as to-read Jan 03, Tyler marked it as to-read Jul 18, Andy marked it as to-read Aug 17, Benas Aukstikalnis marked it as to-read May 07, Marc Bourassa is currently reading it Sep 14, Michael Wright marked it as to-read Nov 22, Jennifer marked it as to-read Feb 08, Randy marked it as to-read Apr 13, DJ Shiva marked it as to-read Apr 25, Mary is currently reading it May 27, William Weyer marked it as to-read Aug 11, Peter Emshwiller marked it as to-read Aug 29, Foxglove Zayuri marked it as to-read Sep 18, Daniel Urdzik marked it as to-read Nov 28, Efi marked it as to-read Nov 30, Knigel Holmes marked it as to-read Dec 14, Chris Allen marked it as to-read Jan 06, Shweta Sridhar marked it as to-read Mar 29, Chelsea added it Apr 11, Douglas Mangum marked it as to-read May 07, Bottleupandessplode marked it as to-read Aug 18, Amanda Bien Aime marked it as to-read Sep 13, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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