Cognitive Limitations
The discussion explores how our brains struggle to comprehend large numbers, a challenge rooted in our evolutionary history. Gurwinder highlights the reliance on heuristics and metaphors to make sense of vast quantities, emphasizing that our exposure to outliers in media skews our perception of reality. This cognitive limitation leads to a distorted understanding of the world, as we mistake rare events for common occurrences.In this clip
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Certainty is the Death of Thought | Gurwinder Bhogal | Episode 155
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