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Paradox ꩜🧿

How to sort of find the truth
Paradox ꩜🧿
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Mlodinow, Leonard. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior. Pantheon Books, 2012.

>> "As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer. Scientists gather evidence, look for irregularities, form theories explaining their observations, and test them. Attorneys begin with a conclusion they want to convince others of and then seek evidence that supports it, while also attempting to discredit evidence that doesn’t. The human mind is designed to be both a scientist and an attorney, both a conscious seeker of objective truth and an unconscious, impassioned advocate for what we want to believe. Together these approaches vie to create our worldview."

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