Rationally Speaking Podcast
Rationally Speaking Podcast
New York City Skeptics
Rationally Speaking #154 - Tom Griffiths on "Why your brain might be rational after all"
53 minutes Posted Mar 6, 2016 at 5:00 pm.
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You've probably heard about cognitive biases -- the systematic errors human brains make when we try to reason or make decisions. But what if our biases are actually a sign of rationality? This episode features Tom Griffiths, professor of cognitive science at University of California, Berkeley and the director of the Computational Cognitive Science lab. Tom makes the case for why our built-in reasoning strategies might be optimal after all.