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The Future of Reasoning | Michael Stevens
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- 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
- The Argumentative Theory of Human Reason We did not evolve to reason individually but to reason socially
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