Thursday, July 29, 2010

Michael Shermer On “The Pattern Behind Self-Deception”


Michael Shermer's excellent talk from TED 2010 about how our natural ability to detect patterns can sometimes go horribly wrong, which can lead to all sorts of illogical beliefs from gods to government conspiracies.

1-10-11 - I've switched out the video for a better one that is in sync.



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2 comments:

  1. Is it just me or is this video hopelessly out of sync? Here's the original @ TED talks:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_self_deception.html

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  2. Thanks for the heads up. I was having some trouble with my video converter and I think that was the cause.

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