Professional Critical Thinker
Humans have the tendency to assign meanings to random events or signals. A lot of the time we fall into the survivorship bias, where we only see what we want to see and ignore the misses. This skeptic shows how we should maintain a critical mind and debunk the pseudo sciences. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Read More Here! 0Rethinking Religion
Richard Dawkins discusses why we should refute the “non-reasoning” nature of religion. This talk highlights some of his arguments against religion in The God Delusion. However, in this talk he dives deeper into the social, economical, and political impact that religion has on the United States. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Read More Here! 0What makes us happy – Synthesizing Happiness
The secret to happiness. The study of our brain has revealed that happiness is synthesized by our brain. In a way it is like cognitive dissonance. Our mind has an immune system that perceived the world in a way that makes us happy. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Read More Here! 0The Strangeness of Science By Richard Dawkins
One of the best intellectuals of modern time talking about how we are not evolved to comprehend the complexities of the world. Evolution only gives us five senses, and a lot of psychological short-cuts (ie. emotions or hunches). It is hard for us to grasp or even imagine the worlds we do not have direct contact with (ie. quantum worlds, or cosmological worlds, or higher dimensions). What we understand of the world is a model our brains construct so […]
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