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Foolish Earthling
Here are some excerpts from an article in the April 2013 issue of ID Magazine (ID stands for Ideas and Discoveries) entitled "Overconfidence-Ego Trips of the Brain".
I think these following statements have a direct bearing on how the thinking works for uber-skeptics and uber-true believers alike;
1. Overconfidence blocks the ability to look critically upon our own mistakes.
2.When mistakes happen, the brain tries to "explain them away" in order to be able to hold on to the established view.
3.For example, Professor Kevin Dunbar, professor of Neuroscience at the University of Toronto demonstrated the world-view guarding reaction using the example of Stanford University biochemists.
Professor Dunbar accompanied them to work and regularly witnessed falsified perceptions generated by overconfidence: When an experiment produced unexpected results, researchers were quick to blame measurement errors. If it still didn't work, the results were ultimately completely ignored.
So..........does this mean both extremes of belief/non-belief of just about anything result from egotistical overconfidence (at least to some major degree)?
Are we ALL guilty of latching on to what seems to confirm our world view, ...and discard or ignore what seems to disagree with it?
More on this: On Overconfidence § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
I think these following statements have a direct bearing on how the thinking works for uber-skeptics and uber-true believers alike;
1. Overconfidence blocks the ability to look critically upon our own mistakes.
2.When mistakes happen, the brain tries to "explain them away" in order to be able to hold on to the established view.
3.For example, Professor Kevin Dunbar, professor of Neuroscience at the University of Toronto demonstrated the world-view guarding reaction using the example of Stanford University biochemists.
Professor Dunbar accompanied them to work and regularly witnessed falsified perceptions generated by overconfidence: When an experiment produced unexpected results, researchers were quick to blame measurement errors. If it still didn't work, the results were ultimately completely ignored.
So..........does this mean both extremes of belief/non-belief of just about anything result from egotistical overconfidence (at least to some major degree)?
Are we ALL guilty of latching on to what seems to confirm our world view, ...and discard or ignore what seems to disagree with it?
More on this: On Overconfidence § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM