Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“There’s not much of a narrative to that, but I agree that when you get it more complicated in life, it could serve all sorts of other functions.”
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- 7 Aug 2024
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…What if you want to carry a story with you of what it meant to you, and your act of choosing helped create and define the story, and you value things through this narrative function, and you actually ought to be that way? Is that so improbable? No, no. I guess the experiments that test it aren’t open to that kind of interpretation. It could often be like, we give you two M&Ms, and you just choose one at random. Then later, when you rank the taste of the M&Ms, you say, “Oh, the one I picked is tastier than the one I didn’t pick,” while if we simply handed it to you, you wouldn’t get that effect. There’s not much of a narrative to that, but I agree that when you get it more complicated in life, it could serve all sorts of other functions. How much does formal education boost IQ?…
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