Why are we so prone to bad logic? We’re going to hear two everyday fugues in this episode: the search for a lost spatula and a spilled beer. The real story here is how easy it is to be irrational. Who is “we” in this episode? It’s me and my inner voice obviously. Inner Voice and I will do some post-fugue analysis to find out what mental phenomena are at play while I make really bad assumptions about events in my surroundings.
By the end of the episode maybe you’ll appreciate why we’re actually doing a lot better than we think we are as a society given how mistake-prone our brains are.
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Credits:
Written and produced by Gabriel Berezin
Original music and sound design - Grant Zubritsky
Opening and closing music: Monuments (featuring Grant Zubritsky (bass), Robby Sinclair (drums) and Bryan Murray (saxophone), Gabriel Berezin (guitar))
Editorial insight - Melissa "Monty" Montan
Logo design - Justin Montan
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References:
- Apophenia in the Queen’s Gambit
- Apophenia in Stranger Things
- Wacky Conspiracy Theory showing Back to the Future predicted 9/11
- How Netflix uses big data to inform its content
- The Brain’s Autopilot (Scientific American)
- Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 vs 2 Thinking (article)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (book)
- Anil Seth’s TED talk
- How Much of What You See is Hallucination (TED Ex)
- Abracadabra! A Classic Magic Trick Fools Expectations, Not Eyes
- My Special Egg Spatula
- Delirious - Prince
- Memories Can’t Wait - Talking Heads
- Not My Own - Monuments
- Where is My Mind - The Pixies
- Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
- There There - Radiohead
