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Very rich book sketching out Keith Stanovich's understanding of the human mind. It was a bit of a trot to read and here and there I'm still a little confused. His main proposal is to subdivide "higher cognition", into
1) the algorithmic mind, measured by IQ and responsible for the effortful processing of information that I know from solving math homework, or a devilish Sudoku, and
2) the reflective mind, which hosts epistemic standards like requiring evidence and questioning one's beliefs, our ab ...more
1) the algorithmic mind, measured by IQ and responsible for the effortful processing of information that I know from solving math homework, or a devilish Sudoku, and
2) the reflective mind, which hosts epistemic standards like requiring evidence and questioning one's beliefs, our ab ...more
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