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The first attempt to cross the Hellespont was destroyed by storms, causing Xerxes to sentence the strait to be bound in irons and receive three hundred lashings. The sentence was carried out: irons were tossed into the sea, and Persian
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“Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason. We all need to take a cold hard look at the evidence and see reasoning for what it is. The French cognitive scientists Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber recently reviewed the vast research literature on motivated reasoning (in social psychology) and on the biases and errors of reasoning (in cognitive psychology). They concluded that most of the bizarre and depressing research findings make perfect sense once you see reasoning as having evolved not to help us find truth but to help us engage in arguments, persuasion, and manipulation in the context of discussions with other people. As”
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
“That might be good news for rationalists—maybe we can think carefully whenever we believe it matters? Not quite. Tetlock found two very different kinds of careful reasoning. Exploratory thought is an “evenhanded consideration of alternative points of view.” Confirmatory thought is “a one-sided attempt to rationalize a particular point of view.”13 Accountability increases exploratory thought only when three conditions apply: (1) decision makers learn before forming any opinion that they will be accountable to an audience, (2) the audience’s views are unknown, and (3) they believe the audience is well informed and interested in accuracy.”
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
― The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
“Why didn't the Democrats accomplish more right after the 2006 elections that gave them control of Congress? It wasn't just that they didn't have votes to override a presidential veto or block a filibuster. They didn't use their mandate to substantially change how the public--and the media-- thought about issues. They just tried to be rational, to devise programs to fit people's interests and the polls. Because there was little understanding of the brain, there was no campaign to change brains. Indeed, the very idea of "changing brains" sounds a little sinister to progressives-- a kind of Frankenstein image comes to mind. It sounds Machiavellian to liberals, like what the Republicans do. But "changing minds" in any deep way always requires changing brains. Once you understand a bit more about how brains work, you will understand that politics is very much about changing brains-- and that it can be highly moral and not the least bit sinister or underhanded.”
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
“Since language is used for communicating thought, our view of language must also reflect our new understanding of the nature of thought. Language is at once a surface phenomenon and a source of power. It is a means of expressing, communicating, accessing, and even shaping thought. Words are defined relative to frames and conceptual metaphors.”
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
“It's fashionable among progressives to wonder why so many "red state" voters don't vote in their own economic interests. This is simply another symptom of 18th-century rationalism, which assumes that everyone is rational and rationality means seeking self-interest. [...] People are not 18th-century reason machines. Real reason works differently. Reason matters, and we have to understand how it really works.”
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
― The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
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