Why do we believe things that aren't true? | Philip Fernbach | TEDxMileHigh
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Published 2017-09-13
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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard P. Feynman
Covid comes to mind -
"It feels like we're in the midst of an epidemic." This line really hits differently in 2021
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'When contagious understanding is paired with individual ignorance '...
Just too good -
"You will never learn anything if everyone you talk to agrees with you." An opposing valid viewpoint can open our mind and give us opportunities to evaluate our own, if we are willing, to let them. Arrogance often prevents that from happening.
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Two things he mentioned that we need desperately
“A culture that values truth”
“ intellectual humility “ -
This is why the phrase "I don't know" is so powerful.
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As someone who was involved with Project Apollo and putting a man on the moon, I can assure you there was no one man that understood more than 0.01% of the system. Apollo is arguably the greatest collaborative effort ever done by mankind. It took 410,000 people. To this day, project Apollo is studied from a management standpoint not just space exploration. A Saturn V moon rocket had approximately 4,000,000 parts. Compare that to a modern automobile which contains about 30,000 parts.
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For the past several years, I've been puzzled about the rise in fake news and how easily people believe things that aren't true. I've read all types of articles and books about it, and this is the first piece of information that makes sense. This talk helps me to be more patient with those who both spread and so easily believe fake news, and it also challenges my own assumptions about what I know must be true.
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"We don't do enough to verify it." He summed it up in one sentence there.
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I love this quotation: "Ignorance is a feature of the human mind."
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This explains religion better than anything I've ever heard.
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I am so amazed about how he literally stayed and stood still on one spot from start to finish. 🤓
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"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing." - Socrates
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I totally get what he means
I am now also an expert on this topic -
This is a great reminder that we all believe what we believe and we all think we are right!
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That's why democracy is just a popularity contest not the reasoned voting of informed people.
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Every moment of this video is as good as the last. I loved the moment when he said, "We can build Cathedrals, but we can also build Houses of Cards.", then the silence and the camera panning the audience. Powerful. Given that without the proper context such a statement or shot of a silent pensive audience would be unremarkable. Damn I'm hyped, what an extraordinary talk! So glad I stumbled across this precious gem of a video. Definitely worth sharing and bookmarking to rewatch.
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Introspection is the greatest quality a human can own.
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I loved how he artfully dodged the opportunity to call any one of us the moron we most certainly are based upon politics.
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The answer has been around a long time:
"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere" Voltaire
