Skepticism School II: F.A.E. and Labels

[TheOuroborosWyrm]

Excellent, and food for thought regarding the ethical implications of logic and cognition. Also...the cake is ALWAYS a lie.

[lachlan1971]

He sounds like the comic book store guy from the Simpsons.

[robatscifinity]

Clean - Dirty or Hygeinic - Contaminated. etc.

Take water for example. In nature it is the H2O molecule with varying solutes and suspended chemicals. How clean does it need to be for YOU to drink it? and would this change given your circumstance?

How hygenic is the cheese you eat? How many bacteria are on your toothbrush? What is dirt anyway?

My suggestion therefore is hygiene.

PS. Drinking water with zero solutes could kill you. But it would be nice and clean!

[MtlRedAtheist]

Humans and chimps: same components, different proportions.

[AtheistBaby]

The brain actively edits out guilt. I don't think so at all. AT ALL.

Some people do. And I don't ever shout when driving. I rarely get angry. Your videos are normally good, but I think this fails...on many levels.

[Keippernicus]

"The brain actively edits out guilt. I don't think so at all."

Your opinion is fine but it stands in direct contradiction to modern psychology. And if it wasn't clear I don't mean always, obviously traumatic events self-inflicted or otherwise can haunt people forever.

And the driving thing was an example, a generalization, not directed at everyone just pointing out typical human behavior.

[AtheistBaby]

Having studied psychology, I would whole heartedly agree. Though psychology isn't held in high regard by the medical community. Some areas it has made great strides - in others it's shamefully lacking.

And there I think we come across the problem of typical human behaviour. The mind of humans and some animals are far too complex to slap typical to it and then give disorders or exemplary reason to the rest. I just found this video lacking. I can't moan, your videos are normally of good quality.

[Keippernicus]

There's no pleasing everyone man, and I have my B.S. in psychology and I KNOW how complex this stuff is it's just tough to say enough without losing your point in all the noise.

I think you'll like the next one better it's a little more concrete.

[ameldia]

Bread cake?

[shockferret]

The bread-cake thing reminded me of transitional species in Evolution.

[FractalHelix777]

@ shockferret: i thought the same thing. It's a good analogy that illustrates how our taxonomy is arbitrary to a certain extent. creationists seem unable to grasp the subtelties between where we delineate the extremes. Point to any substance between bread and cake and a rigid-thinking person can claim it's one or the other. As you noted, they do it all the time to "debunk" transitional species. As Dawkins said, there is no Platonic ideal of any species. Everything is transitional.

[PoppaBahr]

If I had the world as an audience, I'd say "So long, and thanks for all the Babelfish"... JK

[bcFiRe12]

You remind me of Agent Smith from the first Matrix movie when you say some of the things in this video heh.

[ph4rcyd3r]

weighs heavy on people? i have a feeling you're going to talk about the study that proved that people think words written on a heavy piece of concrete are more important than words written on paper, right? ;)

[SexyMelon]

Huh. You made me realise I might actually be a very lucky person.

I do happen to be highly interested in both supernatural and the truth (scepticism then) since as long as I remember myself, and as one might image those things tend to exist in exact opposition to each other... Which means I had to learn about cognitive bias and attribution errors the hard way, in practice. An experience few people are likely to share in our world, on either sides of scepticism or faith.

[SexyMelon]

Oh. And there's the error you were talking about: "scepticism" and "faith" don't necessarily exist in us exclusively - we'll take some things on faith and be sceptical of others, or even apply both to the same thing.

Language is kind of a bitch like that though: it's impossible to get anywhere without doing pretty big rationalisations and hoping the audience will understand you anyway. I'm not sure if there's even a possible compromise between the two.

[SexyMelon]

Okay. This series is much more awesome than I expected.

Why do we never get to learn stuff like this in school? I mean, something useful for a change?..

[HonestDiscussioner]

The only thing that is possibly more damaging than bias against others is the internal confirmation bias we all have.

[brutus149]

The cake is a lie.

[SamNoble89]

I'm hungry now.

[tattooskin72]

I want cake! Chocolate, with chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles!

[MtlRedAtheist]

Wow, this is starting off quite well.

[seriouslymatsteele]

I wish I was as educated as you. Although I suppose that we could find a number of people with varying degrees of education to put between us in order that I might blur the line of separation.

[anubis2814]

Genius, I had never heard of this arguement

[borrofburi]

I would point to C0nc0rdance's videos on confirmation bias. Also Brian Brushwood's lecture, in particular the part about how your own personal memory is not to be trusted. Oh also QualiaSoup's video on open mindedness... I think I'll stop there.

I wonder how F.A.E. ties into the in-group heterogeneity and out-group homogeneity problems.

Oh hey, got to the end of video, and you shall point out confirmation bias, I look forward to it.

[bewarethelizards42]

Splendid, as always.. :)

Hy-bread! *giggle*

[simsi1616]

great video! Looking forward to the next one

[phatpat63]

Hy-bread lol

[Keippernicus]

Probably the best joke I've ever written, sadly.

[upsilon054]

Super, Keippernicus, but one small complaint: You used the expression "more unique". Either something is unique or it aint.

5 *****

☺

[Keippernicus]

There are degrees of uniqueness in psychology, but I suppose 'less ordinary' or something like that would have made more sense.

Thanks for watching.

[leungchaan]

Very sharp...