PHILOS 2CT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Bias, Steven Pinker, Logical Reasoning
3 Dec 2016
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Cognitive biases are a feature of the way we process information. There are 12, but if you look there could be around 45 - has become a big topic in the last few years. What we call cognitive biases, are shaping the way we process information. Certain features in the way we process information these have patterns. Mindsets/mental patterns - seem to lead to bad results. We make judgements and draw inferences on the basis of the information that is available to us. Anything given (i. e. to our senses, in perception of or the context of communication) to be processed mentally, to result in some belief desire. Information consists of patterns in matter or energy [] that correlate with states of the world . When i say: prince believed that some rain is purple" i am saying something that implies that prince is realizing a given brain state.
