It’s possible to fool people’s sense of “feeling informed”.
For instance, LSD seems to often induce a sense of insight and significance … including sometimes attributing cosmic meaning to the patterns perceived in the pebbles in a concrete wall.
Or, for that matter, as some of the psychological studies described in Cialdini’s Influence or Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow appear to have failed to replicate, what is there to say about the sense of feeling informed that accrued to many of us who took them to be insightful?
It’s possible to fool people’s sense of “feeling informed”.
For instance, LSD seems to often induce a sense of insight and significance … including sometimes attributing cosmic meaning to the patterns perceived in the pebbles in a concrete wall.
Or, for that matter, as some of the psychological studies described in Cialdini’s Influence or Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow appear to have failed to replicate, what is there to say about the sense of feeling informed that accrued to many of us who took them to be insightful?