The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 039918435X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the editor in chief of the journal Cognition. He lives with his wife in Providence, Rhode Island. His two children have flown the coop. Philip Fernbach is a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. Steven Sloman is a professor of cognitive, linguistic, and psychological sciences at Brown University. . He
It's magnificent, and it's also a lot of fun. This is psychology at its best.” —Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, and author of Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion. Sloman and Fernbach help us to do so gracefully, acknowledging the truth of how little we know, and finding hope in this precarious situation.” —Relevant Magazine“Between Sloman and Fernbach they have provided an insightful and thought-provoking read on how much the individual knows in relation to the community of knowledge.” —NPJ Journal“We all know less than we think we do, including how much we know about how much we know. No matter how smart we are, as individuals we know (almost) nothing. “In The Knowledge Illusion, the cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach hammer another nail into the coffin o
This book contends that true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the world around us.. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? Cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach argue that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individually oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. “The Knowledge Illusion is filled with i
Great overview of ignorance and community knowledge, but not enough advice on how to deal with it Matt Kruse This book is a fairly easy introduction to the topics of ignorance, the knowledge illusion, how we fool ourselves, and the value/necessity of storing knowledge in a group and how they came to be. The ideas are explained well with lots of examples. I wish everyone would read this book and really think about how much they don't know. The book directly addresses the current political climate, which makes it even more relevant.The only thing that tempted me to give it 4 stars was what I thought was a lack of advice on how to deal with these problems. Many pages were spent explaining how human thinking is fragile and how this results . "Over view of our ignorance of our ignorance" according to A. Menon. The Knowledge Illusion provides a readable overview of how people overestimate their knowledge base and how modern access to information is exacerbating our overconfidence in believing access to community knowledge represents immediate knowledge we possess ourselves. We live in an era of complexity and the basis of our modern civilizations is dependent on increasingly complicated science and highly specialized knowledge to function. At the same time our civilization's understanding of the physical world has reached new highs, our individual grasp of our pool of knowledge is weaker than ever. The knowledge illusion discusses how t. ''We suffer from an illusion that we understand how things work when in fact our understanding is meager'' Clay Garner ''Our point is not that people are ignorant. It’s that people are more ignorant than they think they are. We all suffer, to a greater or lesser extent, from an illusion of understanding, an illusion that we understand how things work when in fact our understanding is meager'' (6)''Illusion of understanding''! Who me?''The mind is not built to acquire details about every individual object or situation. We learn from experience so that we can generalize to new objects and situations. The ability to act in a new context requires understanding only the deep regularities in the way the world works, not the superficial details.''