RE: Witness Evidence
November 12, 2015 at 12:44 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2015 at 12:46 am by Homeless Nutter.)
Our perception is flawed. Our memory is even worse, and both are impaired by emotions. On top of that our imagination is overactive. And we are so proficient at lying, that we can often even fool ourselves. Witness evidence is the worst kind of evidence there is.
The worst part is, that our limited self-awareness causes us to instinctively believe it - often despite scientific evidence to the contrary - especially if it's coming from a source we're emotionally attached to.
And I find it quite symptomatic, that religion and other superstitions rely almost entirely on witness accounts.
The worst part is, that our limited self-awareness causes us to instinctively believe it - often despite scientific evidence to the contrary - especially if it's coming from a source we're emotionally attached to.
And I find it quite symptomatic, that religion and other superstitions rely almost entirely on witness accounts.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
