http://hybridvigor.org/2009/06/06/on-being-certain-revisited-the-myth-of-the-autonomous-rational-mind/ Improving decisions and outcomes through collaboration and deliberation Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:48:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://hybridvigor.org/2009/06/06/on-being-certain-revisited-the-myth-of-the-autonomous-rational-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-12494 rob Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:36:51 +0000 http://hybridvigor.org/?p=283#comment-12494 I think "biology, not self-will, determines a person’s certainty and beliefs" is a little too simplistic, certainly (oops) 'beliefs' should not be there, maybe "certainty in ones beliefs'. I came away with an increased awareness, almost a paradigm shift, in my sense of the interplay between conscious and unconscious thought, how 'backseat' the conscious seems to be. Way up on my list of most eye-opening books I've read. I think “biology, not self-will, determines a person’s certainty and beliefs” is a little too simplistic, certainly (oops) ‘beliefs’ should not be there, maybe “certainty in ones beliefs’.
I came away with an increased awareness, almost a paradigm shift, in my sense of the interplay between conscious and unconscious thought, how ‘backseat’ the conscious seems to be. Way up on my list of most eye-opening books I’ve read.

]]> http://hybridvigor.org/2009/06/06/on-being-certain-revisited-the-myth-of-the-autonomous-rational-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-12484 WHY TRUSTING THE MARKET IS A SUCKER’S BET « The Hybrid Vigor Institute | hybridvigor.net Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:01:18 +0000 http://hybridvigor.org/?p=283#comment-12484 [...] case study of my post on “The Absurdity of Certainty.” And as I pointed out in a recent post, the notion of an autonomous rational mind is a convenient contrivance, not an objective [...] [...] case study of my post on “The Absurdity of Certainty.” And as I pointed out in a recent post, the notion of an autonomous rational mind is a convenient contrivance, not an objective [...]

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