The Demon-Haunted World — Incentives, Evidence, and the Belief Marketplace (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan as a systems-level analysis of how incentive structures around attention, identity, and certainty shape belief — and how weak error-correction allows pseudoscience and superstition to persist.
By focusing on patterns rather than individuals, the episode shows why these systems endure even when their consequences are widely recognized.
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