When Instinct Trumps Reason - Jonah Lehrer

[billykim100]

there comes a time in every mans life....

[badnewswade]

Interesting!

[akaei0]

Amazing. I was comfortable with the idea that emotional and/or intuitive conclusions are sometimes perspicacious and sometimes delusional. From the video it is unclear how to know when to trust intuition. Is that in the book? Or is it just more "Look how weird your brain is." Either way, fascinating.

[golsno147]

Hardly scientific to talk about an "emotional brain".? but, ince 90% of brain activity functions at an unconscious level he is right advising us to have more respect for what may seem impulsive or instinctive judgements and responses to emotional impact . He confirms the limitations (and I suggest the impossibility) of engaging rationality

exclusively as the only ideal basis for "appropriate" action or behavior.

[notthatbasic]

Jonah Lehrer is my favorite science writer. I've got a major mindcrush on him.

[notv3rysocial]

He makes some great arguments in interesting ways, but be careful because he often only addresses the aspects of studies that suit his purposes and in doing so leaves out some very important information.

[Kreature8888]

@notv3rysocial Like what?



[cruiseny]

me too.

[kellyizzl]

Such a good speaker. He makes everything interesting and easy to understand

[politiek]

Isn't that card experiment also mentioned in 'Blink'?

[guez84]

Yes, it is.

[portantwas]

I hate chocolate cake, so I might have stuffed up the test results!

I don't understand why, if my palms are sweating picking the 'bad' deck, this means (a) my emotional brain has twig it is a bad deck or (b) how my rational conscious brain interpretes that as "that is a bad deck"? It is really unclear.

[heartion]

what if the students simply wanted a fuckin slice of chocolate cake over a shit boring salad?

[TMinusNever]

lol

[davidngo4415]

Agreed that irrationality and subjectivism will use this as support for attacking the importance of rational thinking.

Just keep in mind, this guy had to use RATIONAL THINKING to come up with these results.

[13otany13ay]

The last example is a little misleading. We dont get nervous for some mystical subconciesness "knows" allready what is the bad deck. We get nervous because we suspect it to be a bad deck, but we still dont know why. He misrepresents insticst for knowledge while instincts are actually suspicions, assumptions and preassumptions.

Supersticious people also get nervous seeing a black cat cross their path. Do they know something bad will happen? No, they suppose it due to myth they have heard.

[Scoppertop]

Interesting!

[merdufer]

i'd hate to see the irrational camp using these scientific studies as support for doing unscientific things.

[mattjeff12]

Poor obama has more then 7 things to think about

[Krumbz2003]

And he's getting all of them done at once. At least so far.

[spartacandream]

@mattjeff12 No wonder he's not doing such a great job. No wonder presidents grow old so fast. They have to keep track of 7 things while solving 7 others.

[soundscapenyc]

Fascinating.

[Shadizar666]

Now that was cool

[hurchel]

HUUUUUMMMM...No wonder we are feeling overwhelmed..

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[ubuibiok]

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[Krumbz2003]

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