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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.

No.

What we learned from those experiments was that if we don't know a reason for why we did something, we'd invent and whole heartedly believe the first plausible explanation we come up with.

I didn't read any further because you had a fundamental misunderstanding about what those studies actually proved

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

I like how you've deliberately ignored the specifically chosen wording of my statement, and completely disregarded the rest of my point, simply because you perceive it as counter-factual in your world-view, thus exhibiting the exact kind of behavior you were talking about. That's really funny.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're not talking about the split brain exoeriments.
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