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Pinker book rationality7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia- logic, critical thinking, probability, and decision-making under uncertainty. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliche that humans are simply an irrational species. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? ![]() In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. A user's guide to rationality during an epidemic of unreason ![]()
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