How We Know What Isn’t So — Why False Beliefs Feel Rational (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores How We Know What Isn’t So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich as a systems-level investigation into how people form beliefs that feel rational, coherent, and evidence-based—even when the evidence does not support them.
Gilovich argues that questionable beliefs often arise from flawed rationality rather than irrationality. Pattern detection, memory, causal explanation, social learning, and motivation are usually useful tools. But when they encounter random…
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