CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Confirmation Bias, Parapsychology, Wishful Thinking
14 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
We only use 10% of our brains: we use all of our brains, humans brain are very big. If any part of your brain gets damaged, you will suffer deficits. Evolution would not waste energy building vast parts of your brain you don"t use: dangerous child birth due to this - women dying, women"s pelvis"s can only get so big, so our heads cannot grow too large. Why would we believe that: availability cascade, wishful thinking, people like to believe in the paranormal, people want to make money from you. What is true: people can lose whole hemispheres and still function relatively normally, the brain has redundancy. If we removed 70% of your neurons randomly, we"re not sure how badly off you"d be. Psychic powers are real: unfortunately, it"s not, recommended: susan blackmore"s book adventures of a parapsychologist. There are several cognitive biases that make us believe that it"s real: confirmation bias.
