Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction
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Edited by John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, Thinking presents original ideas by today's leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who are radically expanding our understanding of human thought.
Daniel Kahneman on the power (and pitfalls) of human intuition and "unconscious" thinking.
Daniel Gilbert on desire, prediction, and why getting what we want doesn't always make us happy.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the limitations of statistics in guiding decision making.
Vilayanur Ramachandran on the scientific underpinnings of human nature.
Simon Baron-Cohen on the startling effects of testosterone on the brain.
Daniel C. Dennett on decoding the architecture of the "normal" human mind.
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on mental disorders and the crucial developmental phase of adolescence.
Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, and Roy Baumeister on the science of morality, ethics, and the emerging synthesis of evolutionary and biological thinking.
Gerd Gigerenzer on rationality and what informs our choices.
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has no possible selfish benefit. It doesn’t help our reputation; it won’t improve future service. We do it anyway, because we feel that it is right. My favorite experiment on adult human niceness was done by Stanley Milgram many years ago. Milgram was a Yale psychologist who is most famous for his obedience experiments, where he found that people would kill strangers if asked to do so in the right way. But he was also interested in niceness, and he did an experiment in which he left stamped
snakes” is really slow to be rejected as literally true because it is metaphorically true. People compute the metaphor even when they’re not supposed to compute the metaphor. “Some jobs are jails.” People are very slow. “Some jobs are snakes” is very easy. There is no metaphor. What you get, the image that I’m trying to draw of how system one works, is that it is a mental shotgun, it computes a lot more than it’s required to compute. Sometimes one of the things it computes turns out to be so
Iraq, 16 Jackson, Hughling, 70 James, William, 16, 99, 141, 148 Johnson, Mark, 223 Joseph, Craig, 309 Journal of Bentham Studies, 307 Kahneman, Daniel, 18, 28, 30, 148, 195 on intuitive thinking, 386-409 on Klein, 193-94 Kandel, Eric, 95 Kant, Immanuel, 307-9, 312, 323 Kasparov, Gary, 37 Kelemen, Deb, 151-52 Kelley, Hal, 105 Keltner, Dacher, 350 kindness, 344-46, 350, 352-56 kitchen honesty system, 392 Klein, Gary, 193-214 Knobe, Joshua, 294, 370-85 knowledge: explicit, 207
certain physiological processes in the body are very fundamental. We like to think that just by making an effort and exerting willpower we can override them, but these physical sensations can be really powerful and difficult to change. I’m not sure how fruitful it is to chase after consciousness simply because doing so might lead us astray. If a lot of what we do happens outside of consciousness or for reasons that we’re not aware of, then if we try to figure out consciousness it may not explain
enormously productive game, it can be played and has been played for centuries, and many of these moves are novel, and the fact that it’s finite really doesn’t tell us much about its richness, or its importance. If there were a finite language, because of the lack of recursion, that wouldn’t mean that it wasn’t spoken by normal humans, nor would it mean that it wasn’t a very rich source of communication. But if you lived in an environment in which culture restricted the topics that you talked
