The reason I posted the link to epiphany addiction was that this quote is an example of how confusion doesn’t feel good (it prompted you to stop reading...), and that “sense of knowing” feels pleasant. The danger being that we have very little control over when we feel either, so the feeling of knowing is no substitute for rationality.
Thanks. I had no idea that was what you had in mind.
“The feeling of knowing” is probably worth examining in detail.
Sorry no cite, but I heard about a prisoner whose jailers talked nonsense to him for a week. When they finally asked him a straight question it was such a relief he blurted out the answer.
The reason I posted the link to epiphany addiction was that this quote is an example of how confusion doesn’t feel good (it prompted you to stop reading...), and that “sense of knowing” feels pleasant. The danger being that we have very little control over when we feel either, so the feeling of knowing is no substitute for rationality.
Thanks. I had no idea that was what you had in mind.
“The feeling of knowing” is probably worth examining in detail.
Sorry no cite, but I heard about a prisoner whose jailers talked nonsense to him for a week. When they finally asked him a straight question it was such a relief he blurted out the answer.