Cognitive Thrift 26 – Isn’t
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: We defined some things about the principles around cognitive thrift. What isn’t cognitive thrift?
Rick Rosner: Thinking about economics, it is not the science of how your bran makes decisions about finances and money. It’s not about the costs, the financials, neither is it about the financial costs of decisions that make or the financial costs of cognitive bias.
It is kind of deeper than that. It is about the costs and benefits to the organism of thought itself. And in in its most extreme, what are the costs and benefits? Meaning, the person who can think and react to the environment compared to a tree that can’t think.
You can make a case for being a tree and for being a human. Trees live for hundreds of years. They reproduce. At the same time, trees can’t change their situation. They can be cut down for Christmas trees.
They can be attacked by beetles. They can’t run away from a fire. People can react to their situations, but if their percipient thoughts are erroneous then they can become victims of their own thoughts.
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