What If Reason Was Not Such A Good Thing After All?

I came across an arti­cle by Newsweek’s Sharon Beg­ley ‘The Lim­its Of Rea­son’ which, inspired by the work by Hugo Mercier of the Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia and cog­ni­tive sci­en­tist Dan Sper­ber of the Insti­tut Jean Nicod in Paris, presents an inter­est­ing bias on the pur­pose and effec­tive­ness of ratio­nal­ity and reason.

Every­one knows that the best deci­sion are taken after calm ratio­nal think­ing. Well, is that really true? We are at heart deeply irra­tional beings despite our attempts at ratio­nal­ity. And there is evi­dence that … it’s prob­a­bly a good thing!

Click HERE to read her arti­cle (you will be redi­rected to the Newsweek web­site which will open on another page) and feel free to be totally irrational!

Happy mad­ness!

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