Tag: reasoning
Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef
The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may.
On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris
Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me.
Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.
Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking
Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan.
Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences
Pattern completion tasks like this have been part of aptitude testing for a long time. The NSA and CIA, for instance, have used them to help in hiring analysts.