WOTM: Can I Trust My Own Thinking?

This C.S. Lewis quote is rubbish of course. How can we trust our thinking? We test it, moron! This is what science is all about. I have an idea, I test it, and it either survives or it doesn't.

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Hallelujah Brother! Straight to the point!

Brilliant, thanks Brian. I’d love to see you challenge some of Clive’s other assertions. He certainly was a clever bugger at dressing up bullshit in intellectual clothing.

It do show.

I have often pondered how part of the problem with our "thinking" is that we have various levels of brain that evolved over eons, each with their own proclivities and instincts for our species' survival. For example, like our chimpanzee cousins, we have an inborn tendency to view the world as in-groups and out-groups. Millions of years ago, such prejudices probably helped our separate clans to survive and reproduce, passing along those same biologically hard-wired instincts. Thank goodness we also finally evolved a more complex cerebral cortex, on top of our lower brain stem, that allows us to reason, apply logic, use the scientific method, and realize that those proclivities are now harmful in the modern world. Too bad certain political figures even today ::cough:: tap into those primitive urges to divide people up and pit them against one another. For Gawd's sake, sheeple, as Carl Sagan admonished: try NOT to "think with your gut."

Fantastic thinking on thinking! Thank you.