191 | Don't Trust Your Common Sense
What to Expect:
Ancient Greek philosophers speculated about the nature of subjective experience and the common intuition afforded to humans that made up their “common sense.” Many people describe common sense as sound judgment informed by one’s intuition and experiences. When you boil it down, common sense is almost nothing but our biases and the result of NOT thinking. We conclude that common sense is not to be trusted.
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Links for Today:
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/plato-theaetetus/>.
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/11/248194-seeking-artificial-common-sense/fulltext (Chappell, Sophie-Grace, "Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59/59-h/59-h.htm#part1)
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/11/248194-seeking-artificial-common-sense/fulltext
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201107/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense (Descartes, René, 1596-1650. (1986). Discourse on method. New York : London :Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan)
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/201107/common-sense-is-neither-common-nor-sense (Psychology Today Blog: Common Sense is Neither Common nor Sense)
https://skeptoid.com/blog/2015/05/01/joint-pain-part-3 (The link was broken so I tried to find the original source, it was somewhere on this website)
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