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Skeptics Guide To The Universe (Deception (Memory (Contamination -…
Skeptics Guide To The Universe
Deception
Memory
Contamination
- memories can be contaminated by other people sharing details of their individual memories
Imagining
can fill the gaps, or create false memories
Distortion
- memory can be changed or distorted
Fusion
- mixing up memories
Personalize
- shifting memories from happening to other people to happening to ourselves
Vision
Pareidolia
- the process of perceiving image in random noise
Fusiform facial area
- part of the brain that specializes in recognizing and remembering faces. Damage to it can cause prosopagnosia - inability to recognize faces
Hypnagogia
- dreaming and waking states are fused. Can cause
sleep paralysis
Metacognition
- "thinking about thinking"
Fallacy
- invalid connection between premise and conclusion
Informal Fallacy
Argument from authority
Ad Hominem
Ad Ignorantiam
- belief is true, because we don't know that it isn't true.
Fallacy of relative privation (appeal to worse problem)
– dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument
Confusing Correlation with Causation
- correlation does not alone
prove
causation.
Fallacy Fallacy
- even if argument does not support conclusion, it doesn't
necessarily
mean that conclusion is true or false.
Straw man
- constructing a weak version of someone's position
Appeal to nature
- assumption that things that are natural are Superior to the things that are manufactured
Cognitive Bias
Dunning-Kruger effect
- incompetent people can not recognize how incompetent they are. People think they are above average in a given area of knowledge.
Confirmation Bias
- a type of cognitive bias that involves favouring information that confirms your previously existing beliefs or biases.