The mind as an improviser
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If we really could think very carefully about all the things we know and why we think them, there’d just be an enormous trail of justifications and reasons.
I think, “Why did I do that one thing? Oh, I did it because of this… and I did that because of something else”. We see a world that we think we understand very well. We think we see lots of it. We think we have a full view of what’s going on.
But, as I begin to explore in this video, in reality, we don’t.
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The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology

The Mind is Flat: The Shocking Shallowness of Human Psychology

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