Our brains are naturally influenced from handling information in a particular and somewhat automatic way. One might say that this can be a good thing as it means perception and experience is fairly fast and effortless. There are advantages to survival from these biases as they try to provide instant interpretations of the world and thus free up important resources for other things and new information which might be threatening. However, such biases do have downsides. As certain things almost always appear a certain way to us (because of inherent brain biases underlying information processing) this can lead us to conclusions and views that are very persuasive but are in fact false and incorrect. We call this cognitive biases or habits of thought. For instance, often I would play the slots at the casinos in Chicago. On a three bet game board, I would bet on one game and it turns out that the other two game boards are the winning boards. Furthermore, it continues to be the winning......
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