(April 5, 2019 at 12:21 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(April 5, 2019 at 12:17 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: For one thing, despite all of our cognitive biases, we've managed to make them work, using some method or other.
What real cognitive biases did we have to work against to invent computers? Did we have to work against cognitive biases to invent the wheel, or figure out how to make a fire?
Yes. Cognitive biases are active in everything we do. Regarding computers, the bias towards realism is at odds with the conclusions of quantum mechanics, the understanding of which, and the rejection of our bias toward realism, were required in order to create computers and to productively design and improve them. The fact that you are unaware of this simply makes you an ignorant twat.