Cognition: How do you know what you know?
In the third decade of the third millennium, we face deadly threats to our health, our democracy, and the livability of our planet....
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Idea 10. The purpose of the human brain is to argue not to reason
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. Ambrose Bierce Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the...
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Idea 11. The more science has advanced the more people believe in conspiracies
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between...
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Idea 12. Science or pseudoscience? It's not always easy to tell the difference
The best antidote for pseudoscience, I firmly believe, is science. Carl Sagan, Broca’s Brain Nullius in verba (Latin for “on the word of...
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