Saturday, August 21, 2021

Common Book: These minds are made for rationalizing

Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge:
Think of it this way: humans are equipped with some of evolution’s finest mental circuitry to protect us from changing our minds when doing so might alienate us from our group. We have hundreds of thousands of years of practice at believing whatever will keep us in good standing with our tribe, even if that requires denying, discounting, rationalizing, misperceiving, and ignoring the evidence in front of our nose.

Common Book posts are quotes from whatever I'm reading. Sometimes you'll get lots of them. Sometimes not so many. 

1 comment:

Ashok said...

Oooohh--this is good, glad you wrote it down. Can be useful for any number of articles I might write.

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