{"id":3270,"date":"2019-04-12T00:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2019-04-12T00:14:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:14:41","slug":"why-facts-dont-change-our-minds-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/12\/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Facts Don\u2019t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Stripped of a lot of what might be called cognitive-science-ese, Mercier and Sperber\u2019s argument runs, more or less, as follows: Humans\u2019 biggest advantage over other species is our ability to co\u00f6perate. Co\u00f6peration is difficult to establish and almost as difficult to sustain. For any individual, freeloading is always the best course of action. Reason developed not to enable us to solve abstract, logical problems or even to help us draw conclusions from unfamiliar data; rather, it developed to resolve the problems posed by living in collaborative groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReason is an adaptation to the hypersocial niche humans have evolved for themselves,\u201d Mercier and Sperber write. Habits of mind that seem weird or goofy or just plain dumb from an \u201cintellectualist\u201d point of view prove shrewd when seen from a social \u201cinteractionist\u201d perspective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/27\/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds?mbid=social_facebook&amp;utm_brand=tny&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=facebook\">Why Facts Don\u2019t Change Our Minds | The New Yorker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stripped of a lot of what might be called cognitive-science-ese, Mercier and Sperber\u2019s argument runs, more or less, as follows: Humans\u2019 biggest advantage over other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}