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> I believe the connection you make between LSD and the discovery of DNA is apocryphal. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/ https://www.ncbi.
by geocar 4y ago
> I believe the connection you make between LSD and the discovery of DNA is apocryphal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/
“Would I have invented PCR if I hadn’t taken LSD? I seriously doubt it […] I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs.”
> Is there some sort of allusion to the meritocracy trap or fundamental attribution bias? … I'm just confused.
I have no idea what led you to that idea and I’m very sorry to have confused you, what else can I say?
- ignoramous 3y ago> Or another example: if you've ever looked at someone who behaved badly, and said you wouldn't have done that? Is where OP perhaps got fundamental attribution error from. > ...you're probably more successful than a lot of people, and I bet you think your hard work had something to do with it. Is very similar to the myth of meritocracy some folks believe in. --- In sum, you intend to point out that cognitive biases (or perhaps, cognitive dissonance) are also a form of magical thinking? Like OP, I find it hard to reconcile that with LSD/DNA discovery. In my view, biases mostly fool you; but they don't quite emerge out of an insight (magical thinking), as the article describes it.