Adventures in Thought Space

  Few believe in the cognitive system—which is unfortunate because it’s the root of human bias. Few understand that beliefs and their primitive equivalents are effectively a person’s psychology, making their management one in the same. Understanding bias and susceptibility to wrongness is the most important aspect of judgment. This talk is the third lecture and introduces the cognitive system and its role in judgment and reasoning.  

If raw intellect’s role in wisdom and judgment isn’t overestimated, it’s at least misunderstood. Some problems arise because few distinguish between them and other intellectual attributes, such as judgment and competence. Many biases are universal to thinking apparatuses, even if engineered, and remain unknown. This is the second talk in the lecture series and explains the origins of these issues, how they impair judgment, and what can be done to combat them.