Human Tech - The Team W Podcast
A podcast at the intersection of humans, brain science, and technology. Your hosts Guthrie and Dr. Susan Weinschenk explore how behavioral and brain science affects our technologies and how technologies affect our brains.
Some quotes/notes from the podcast:
- As humans, we tend to think we know a lot about things, but we don't. Thinking that we know might change our processes and behaviors.
- Individuals don't know very much, but as communities we do. Humans are designed to collaborate on knowledge.
- People get a sense of understanding from the people around them. If people around you have an understanding about something, you might think you also have an understanding about the same thing. As individuals, we don't know much about something and we tend to align ourselves to others to achieve that understanding. This is the way humans are.
- Problem with that is, as individuals, we might come to believe in things that are incorrect as we trust people around us without doing any actual research to understand what we trust others to know.
- We tend to see things in a superficial level and we tend to not appreciate complexity. If we appreciated complexity, we would have to be aware of so much details and that would turn us into a non-functional human being.
- What is causality? We have causality because we impose it on the world. There is no actual causality. We use it to simplify.
- To be an organism in the world is to understand and try to control our environment. Thought is an extension to our ability to act in the world. Causality is the system by which we think because it is simple and available.
- A common heuristics associated with causal reasoning is what the authors call "outsource", that we do when reasoning is too much demanding. We outsource activities we don't understand and let other people solve it, as long as they have the expertise to do it.