Spoiler: Quotes 47:19 despite some people being vocal about the subject they consider outdated like a negative opinion of tattoos, it takes many years for a shift in the public's eye despite us wishing it was otherwise. Perhaps then it's in our own best interests to act in accordance to how the world is. "If reasoning is so great, why are we the only species with such a sophisticated grasp of it? And if its purpose is truth and good judgement, why don’t we all agree on everything?" Spoiler: Insights 13:52 [in explaining the experiment 12:41] "Point is, we seem practically BUILT to give reasons for whatever we think we must, and NOT the reasons we actually used to reach a conclusion. " 15:00"Instead of using reasoning to come to conclusion, we use conslusions to come to reasons" 15.33: " But when we reason alone, even when we have no motivation to reach any particular conclusion, we STILL exhibit deep biases that seem less like mistakes and more like features." 15:45 "For example, it’s been shown that between two otherwise similar products, people will prefer to buy the one with more features — even if they don’t want those features, never plan to use them, and think they’re all pointless and over complicated. Why? Well it might be that we find such decisions easier to justify … to OTHERS. We won’t feel embarrassed if someone criticizes us for getting fewer features. After decades of findings like this, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber began to hypothesize that reasoning didnt evolve to help us make better decisions, but instead, to help us be social. 23:10 "Furthermore, because of technology, we confront more issues more rapidly than ever before that we’re expected to have opinions about. And the growing complexity and specialization of the modern world makes it difficult for each of us to have well-informed prepared reasons for the acceleraeting accretion of intutions we must form. in response, we look for lone reasoners who can defend our intuitions for us. They reasons they give don’t need to be good, just good ENOUGH that we can feel like justification exists."
