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Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities
An excerpt from an article by Michael Shermer, Scientific American:
The reason that our folk intuitions so often get it wrong is that we evolved in what evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins calls “Middle World”—a land midway between short and long, small and large, slow and fast, young and old. Out of personal preference, I call it [...]
Plastic Brain Outsmarts Experts
Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birth
Training a person’s working memory may increase his or her general intelligence.
Can human beings rev up their intelligence quotients, or are they stuck with IQs set by their genes at birth? Until recently, nature seemed to be the clear winner over nurture.
But new research, [...]
Why our brains are so clumsy
Free thinking, indeed any kind of thinking, is dependent on the abilities of our brains. Learning more about our brain can give us insight into the process and products of thinking.
In his new book, Kluge: The haphazard construction of the human mind, Gary Marcus aims to take the human species down a peg or two. [...]
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