![]() In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding – and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. Indeed, if humans were fundamentally irrational, how did they discover the benchmarks for rationality against which humans fall short? A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we’re so smart- how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and lengthened and enriched our lives. ![]() But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. ![]() A user’s guide to rationality acts as a follow-up to the bestselling Enlightenment Now Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. ![]()
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