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I agree that listening to expert advice over your gut is the right thing to do. But that’s besides the point—-learning to trust expert advice is a brain behavi

I agree that listening to expert advice over your gut is the right thing to do. But that’s besides the point—-learning to trust expert advice is a brain behavior that has to be properly learned. (For example, many of us have learned to catastrophize and over-generalize, where bad advice from one expert suddenly translates into not listening to all future experts). I’m imploring: do not dismiss your gut, folks! Please continue to use brain, but stop dismissing your gut. .... “I think therefore I am” is oversimplified bunk.

lotsofpulp 6y ago
Your “gut” is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases And thinking your gut knows something is part of those biases, namely, confirmation and selection bias.
- crazypython 6y ago
  No, it's this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum Or, it's System 1, the fast system. While your System 1 might make bias mistakes, I believe it can be trained not to make them.