Hugo Mercier was recently on Sean Carroll's podcast talking about the concepts from his new book The Enigma of Reason. The gist of it is that most of the functi

Hugo Mercier was recently on Sean Carroll's podcast talking about the concepts from his new book The Enigma of Reason. The gist of it is that most of the function of what we call reasoning doesn't exist to implement logical reasoning, but rather evolved to provide the social utility of providing "reasons" to convince or placate other humans. I guess what I'm saying is we may be closer to ChatGPT than we think - we may not usually be logically reasoning when we provide reasons, but inventing after the fact reasons that are statistically likely to be accepted for what we did or what we want to do. Podcast: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/04/17/233-hugo-mercier-on-reasoning-and-skepticism/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/04/17/233-...