Cognition

Cognition
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman
Convictions are greater enemies of truth than lies.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Cognitive biases enabled early humans to make quick decisions and maintain social cohesiveness. Today they are counterproductive to learning science.

New! - Making decisions

List of cognitive biases - Cognitive dissonance

Availability heuristic - more - more

Learning specifics may not help with learning abstractions

The psychology of incompetence - brief review - The Dunning-Kruger effect
Those who are incompetent in a given subject can't recognize competence in that subject.
The four stages of competence

The illusion of explanatory depth - review

People are least competent in understanding and explaining mechanisms.
 Critical thinking - Personal construct psychology

List of fallacious arguments, Albert Ellis - cognitive therapy

Formal reasoning (Piaget), Morton's demon (anticognition)

Hypoconition, Attribution bias - more - Attribution theory - more 1
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