It’d be actually interesting if they all weren’t so intellectually dishonest as well as stupid.
There is no difference.
The human brain is not by default a reasoning or logic tool. The human brain does one thing and one thing only: it provides coherent narratives to explain feelings and sensations. Not reasonable narratives, just coherent. That’s really it. It can do this to varying levels of complexity depending on experience and learning, but even the smartest people will discard reason to validate an emotion. This is why we have anti-vax nurses and climate-change denying scientists and engineers who think the Earth is flat.
We are not a species that makes sense, and the most clever among us have figured this out either directly or implicitly, and are exploiting this fact to get things they want.
There is no difference.
The human brain is not by default a reasoning or logic tool. The human brain does one thing and one thing only: it provides coherent narratives to explain feelings and sensations. Not reasonable narratives, just coherent. That’s really it. It can do this to varying levels of complexity depending on experience and learning, but even the smartest people will discard reason to validate an emotion. This is why we have anti-vax nurses and climate-change denying scientists and engineers who think the Earth is flat.
We are not a species that makes sense, and the most clever among us have figured this out either directly or implicitly, and are exploiting this fact to get things they want.