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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | + | [[White Hat]] says that problems in society could be avoided if people relied on logic and science rather than feelings -- but when [[Cueball]] presses him to back up his claim, White Hat insists that what his claim must be true, because it ''feels'' true, and the opposition (which he dismissively refers to as "these idiots") believes in things that he doesn't believe. Because the comic is only one panel long, we have no way of determining whether White Hat's statement is self-evident, or if the opposition is as uneducated as he claims them to be; without surrounding context to distract us, we see that White Hat's argument is both fallacious and hypocritical. | |
− | + | The title text is White Hat's opinion, where he says that people need more common sense, but not enough to have them know when he is talking down to them. | |
− | Ironically, there is some inconclusive scientific evidence against White Hat's position. It is possible that effective rational thought depends on feelings and emotions as a preprocessing step. For example, people with damage to the | + | Ironically, there is some inconclusive scientific evidence against [[White Hat]]'s position. It is possible that effective rational thought depends on feelings and emotions as a preprocessing step. For example, people with damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex lose their ability to have gut reactions to decision options. In Damasio's research, they were unable to make good decisions in everyday life. This may be because every option seems emotionally as good as any other and the brain is not good at conscious processing of large numbers of alternatives. See {{w|Descartes' Error|Descartes' Error" by Damasio 1994}} and {{w|The_Righteous_Mind|"The Righteous Mind" by Haidt 2012}}. |
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