Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds: New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason
By artappraiser on Sun, 02/26/2017 - 5:10pm |By Elizabeth Kolbert @ The New Yorker, for the Feb. 27 issue
Fascinating and very apropos to everything we members do on this site as well as the current political and social situation in this country.
To sum a major point of the article up, which is itself a summary gleaned from several recently published books: Scientists from several disciplines are beginning to think that the more evolved a human is, the less "confirmation bias" they will have in selecting facts and other information. That "confirmation bias" was a positive trait in tribalistic society, but is becoming a negative trait now.
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds
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