Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist, reports on research that concludes that we select our view of God’s opinions to fit with our own. It seems that as our own opinions change so does our description of God’s opinions. The conclusion then is that God is a blank slate, onto which we project our opinions. “Overall these … Continue reading Is God a blank slate?
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If you only read one Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech this week…
…you could do worse than to make it this one: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2002/kahneman-lecture.html Economist Daniel Kahneman at his most accessible (not particularly) and relevant (very). You can also watch it. “people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgemental operations. In general, these … Continue reading If you only read one Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech this week…