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Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Here is an interesting ted talk that speaks of some of the limitations of rationality in people. Personally, I think we are a lot less rational than we give ourselves credit for and that's the ideas of natural consequences for behavior does not always work. This video contains experiments that show some of the inherent biases that people tend to not realize that they possess.
What are your thoughts?
Pffft, free will is over-rated.Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Here is an interesting ted talk that speaks of some of the limitations of rationality in people. Personally, I think we are a lot less rational than we give ourselves credit for and that's the ideas of natural consequences for behavior does not always work. This video contains experiments that show some of the inherent biases that people tend to not realize that they possess.
What are your thoughts?
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Our brains are making the decisions, but we may not only not be in control of those decisions, we may not even be consciously aware of them.
Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them
DrunkenAsparagus said:If I get up right now to get a bowl of cereal because I want to or because chemical reactions in my brain and muscles made me do it, I'm still getting cereal. So really, who cares?
People don’t behave rationally because it isn’t worth the cognitive effort to laboriously assess the outcome of each possible choice, and the degree of difference between outcomes is often too ambiguous to immediately identify which one we’d prefer.
Yep, being irrational is the most rational allocation of limited cognitive resources.
I think you are probably correct in pointing out the inherent irrationality in people. That irrationality that exists is one of the problems I have with economic theories that assume people do act rationally. Those theories do not reflect reality.
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Here is an interesting ted talk that speaks of some of the limitations of rationality in people. Personally, I think we are a lot less rational than we give ourselves credit for and that's the ideas of natural consequences for behavior does not always work. This video contains experiments that show some of the inherent biases that people tend to not realize that they possess.
What are your thoughts?
Are we in control of our decisions?
Caine said:Whoah DuDe!
I think all of you are just trying to rationalize your irrational descision making processes.
I didn't mention you being a stoner. All I said was, "Whoah Dude"Thank you for the demonstration, Caine.
Here, Caine is giving very little weight to what I’m saying because I’m a stoner. Instead of wasting time and mental effort processing it, he can brush it off using a rule of thumb called the contagion heuristic. “He’s a stoner, stoners are bad, therefore I don’t need to think too hard about whatever he says.”
We all use heuristics, but we're not always consciously aware of when we use them because such conscious awareness would expend the cognitive resources that we're trying to save by using them.
I think "rationally" and "in their own interests" are two different things.
I was waiting for someone to try to use this to make a point about how this is why people need to be regulated. Didn't think it would be you though.
I didn't mention you being a stoner. All I said was, "Whoah Dude"
As per the rest of your comment towards me. It isn't about you specifically. I fail to see how attempting to analyze this particular question is going to get anyone anywhere. Its all pure speculation with zero definitive answer, or any way to accurately measure whether anyone's opinion on the matter is even close to that of reality.
I think you are probably correct in pointing out the inherent irrationality in people. That irrationality that exists is one of the problems I have with economic theories that assume people do act rationally. Those theories do not reflect reality.
The same goes for theories that assume economies can be centrally planned.
Good video BTW>
If you're constructing an economic format - and just factor in predictable irrationality - then you can still nail it down.
That is what this discusses, by the way - predictable irrationality. "People act irrationally - and this is how they do it"
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