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Make that 'Colbert' vs. 'Spock' :)

I wish i had this back when I was teaching gen-ed science courses in college. I tried to do something similar, but at a much smaller scale. Some random observations, that would help flesh the content out:

  1. A big reason "type 1" reasoning is so often wrong is these decision making modules evolved under very different conditions than we currently live in.

  2. I always liked Pinker's description (from "How the Mind Works") of the nature of the conscious mind by reverse-engineering it: it is a simulation of a serial process running on paralle

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Make that 'Colbert' vs. 'Spock' :)