Those linked basic claims look well falsified already.
People always believe that all of their intrinsic goods will be achieved...This is, according to Connection Theory, an inviolable law of the mind.
Wishful thinking is not THAT ubiquitous and unbeatable. Lots of people expect to die without an afterlife and wish it wasn't so.
According to Connection Theory, the sole source of a
person’s irrationality is that person’s need to believe that all of his or her intrinsic goods
will be fulfilled. This need is a constraint; given this constraint, everyone forms the
most reasonable beliefs that they can on the basis of the evidence they encounter
Falsified all over the place, by most of the... (read more)
Those linked basic claims look well falsified already.
Wishful thinking is not THAT ubiquitous and unbeatable. Lots of people expect to die without an afterlife and wish it wasn't so.
Falsified all over the place, by most of the... (read more)