Sciencing With a Primate Brain: Reflections on the Nature of Scientific Thought
Your brain wasn’t built to find the truth, it was built to keep you alive. This essay explores why scientific, objective thought feels so deeply counterintuitive, why myth and magical thinking come so naturally to us, and what it truly takes to train an evolved primate mind toward reality.
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