Jul 31, 2020
6 min read
2+2 = Whatever We’re Told It Is
Why the avoidance of thinking invariably makes us foolish
The human brain has evolved to prefer simple over complex for the very good reason that attempting to grapple with complexity burns up a lot of calories in the brain. For nearly all of our evolutionary history calories were scarce and uncertain, and so thinking as little as possible was a highly adaptive strategy.
