Can doctors and investment advisers be trusted? And do we live more for experiences or memories? In a SPIEGEL interview, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses the innate weakness of human thought, deceptive memories and the misleading power of intuition.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 34407.html
Debunking the Myth of Intuition
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Debunking the Myth of Intuition
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"SPIEGEL: In your view, the remembering self is very dominant -- to the point that it seems to have practically enslaved the experiencing self.
Kahneman: In fact, I call it a tyranny. It can vary in intensity, depending on culture. Buddhists, for example, emphasize the experience, the present; they try to live in the moment. They put little weight on memories and retrospective evaluation. For devout Christians, it's completely different. For them, the only thing that matters is whether they go to heaven at the end."
This observation on religion is, of course, a generalization. But it does raise an interesting point. We do suffer from trying to make the "story of our lives" form fit to some idealized mold.
Kahneman: In fact, I call it a tyranny. It can vary in intensity, depending on culture. Buddhists, for example, emphasize the experience, the present; they try to live in the moment. They put little weight on memories and retrospective evaluation. For devout Christians, it's completely different. For them, the only thing that matters is whether they go to heaven at the end."
This observation on religion is, of course, a generalization. But it does raise an interesting point. We do suffer from trying to make the "story of our lives" form fit to some idealized mold.
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Re: Debunking the Myth of Intuition
So much wisdom and subtlety in these points.
Q: “Do you have funny shaped balloons?”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”
A: “Not unless round is funny.”