[b]Daniel Kahneman
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.[/b]
Imagine then how strange it is to me.
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.
Cue my groots, right?
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.
And, sure, especially when they see a lot.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
And then objectivists among us who know everything. Claiming there was never any chance that they wouldn’t.
…we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
In other words, blindness all the way down.
The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.
But, if your mind works wholly in sync with nature, it doesn’t have to make sense at all.