The Future of Reasoning Reason and logic are struggling

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The Future of Reasoning | Michael Stevens

• 00:00:05 Where is your mind? 
• 00:00:45 The mind is huge 
• 00:01:39 Reason 
• 00:02:38 Reason and logic are struggling 
• 00:03:51 How do you rethink everything? 
• 00:04:35 Hyperobjects 
• 00:05:24 How to avoid a climate disaster 
• 00:05:43 What if reasoning wasn't built for what we've become? 
• 00:07:34 What is reasoning? 
• 00:09:31 If reasoning is so great then why ….? 
• 00:12:14 That's not how reasoning works 
• 00:13:57 What if we don't use reasons to reach conclusions? 
• 00:16:10 Reasoning evolved to help us be social 
• 00:17:15 Social theory of reasoning 
• 00:19:14 Confirmation bias 
• 00:20:13 Reasoning is a group activity 
• 00:21:18 The crowd 
• 00:22:28 Reasoning evolved to be used socially 
• 00:24:09 Role in deciding how society is run 
• 00:24:58 Leaders could lead deliberation 
• 00:25:29 The future of reason is the past of reason 
• 00:25:53 Small targetted discusions 
• 00:26:10 Lottocracy  (Lottocracy)
• 00:28:28 More and better arenas for deliberation 

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