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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The illusion of explanatory depth makes us believe we know more than we truly do.
Chapter 3: The human brain didn’t evolve to store data, and the world is unimaginably complex.
Chapter 4: The human brain evolved for action, and diagnostic reasoning may set us apart from animals.
Chapter 5: Because reasoning from effect to cause is hard, we rely on stories to make causal sense.
Chapter 6: We use both intuitive and deliberate modes of reasoning.
Chapter 7: Our thinking depends on our bodies and on the external world.
Chapter 8: Our species’ success rests on shared intelligence and our power to work together.
Chapter 9: Machines can’t share intentions, so a true superintelligence is unlikely.
Chapter 10: Fear of innovation can breed anti-science attitudes that resist correction.
Chapter 11: Thinking in causal terms can fight groupthink, while politicians use sacred values.
Chapter 12: We must rethink what it means to be smart and reimagine education.
Description
The Knowledge Illusion (2017) is an in-depth exploration of the human mind. It argues against the view that intelligence is solely an individual attribute, offering compelling arguments for how our success as a species would have been impossible without a community of knowledge.
Who Should Listen
- Students of cognitive science
- Know-it-alls
- Aspiring intellectuals worried that they know too little