CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Confirmation Bias, Falsifiability

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

This is not true, we use all of our brain for a matter of fact if any part of our brain gets damaged, you will suffer deficits. Evolution would not waste energy building vast parts of your brain you do not use. We believe that we only use 10% percent of our brain due to availability cascade, wishful thinking, and people want to make money from you. What is true is that we can lose whole hemispheres and still function relatively normally due to the brain having redundancy. If we remove 70% of your neurons randomly, we"re not sure how badly off you will be. Esp is not real, but we believe it due to confirmation bias, neglect of negative results and wishful thinking. This is not true, but we believe it because we hope it is true. the effect is small, short term, and only based on arousal from listening to the music.