I’m not sure this is a very rationalist quote. In particular, many judgments people make and many biases come into play at a non-conscious level. We generally need to make a conscious effort to correct for those biases.
Yes and no. You are right about a lot of biases originating from the unconscious. But the other way is also possible, the smart human who does something stupid because he has a good theory of how it should be done. Or choosing a picture because of some salient verbalizable reason instead of just taking the one you like the most without necessarily being able to explain why, etc...
There is more on this topic in “The rational unconscious: Conscious versus unconscious thought in complex
consumer choice” by Ap Dijksterhuis and in Jonah Lehrer “How we decide”.
I’m not sure this is a very rationalist quote. In particular, many judgments people make and many biases come into play at a non-conscious level. We generally need to make a conscious effort to correct for those biases.
Yes and no. You are right about a lot of biases originating from the unconscious. But the other way is also possible, the smart human who does something stupid because he has a good theory of how it should be done. Or choosing a picture because of some salient verbalizable reason instead of just taking the one you like the most without necessarily being able to explain why, etc...
There is more on this topic in “The rational unconscious: Conscious versus unconscious thought in complex consumer choice” by Ap Dijksterhuis and in Jonah Lehrer “How we decide”.