Allan Milne Lees
1 min readJun 4, 2020

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I'm surprised to read that anyone in the field still imagines that we humans make decisions in any coherent fact-related way. Sapolsky's Stanford lectures (introductory biology of human behavior) are enough to make it clear beyond any doubt that nearly all our decision-making occurs as a result of factors that have little to do with reason-based processes. Add to this the enormous literature that's emerged over the last 30 years regarding the coherence (or rather, lack thereof) in human behavior (of which decision-making is a part) and one is left with the conclusion that we're mostly just sleepwalking through our brief existence.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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