Racionalidad

In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights in scientific understanding and, at the same time, it seems to be freaking out. How can a species that has developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so many fake news, quack remedies, and conspiracy theories? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that we are an irrational species: extemporaneous cavemen laden with biases, fallacies, and illusions. After all, we have discovered the laws of nature, we have prolonged and enriched our lives, and we have set the benchmarks of rationality itself. Instead, it explains that we think sensibly in the low-tech contexts in which most of our lives spend, but we fail to take advantage of the powerful reasoning tools that we have built over the millennia: logic. , critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, and decision making. These tools are not a standard component of our educational curricula and, to date, they have never been presented in a clear and enjoyable way.