Human beings nearly coolly rational like think are. set comfortable pl — Sean Carroll

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Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation – but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions.

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