We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.
Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.
The errors of the observer come from the qualities of the human mind.
It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.
... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.
I like the human mind and how messed up it is.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.
