TREY: THE BOOK IS TITLED
"RATIONALITY, WHAT IT IS,
WHY IT SEEMS SCARCE AND WHY
CAN MATTERS."
PROFESSOR PINKERS.
HE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
RATIONALITY IS.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US
PROFESSIONER PINKER, WHAT DO
YOU MEAN?
>> I DEFINE IT AS USE OF
KNOWLEDGE TO ATTAIN GOALS.
THAT IS THERE IS SOMETHING
THAT YOU WANT TO SHOW, YOU
WANT TO GET.
AND YOU USE BRAIN POWER TO
ATTAIN IT.
TREY: PROFESSOR THAT LEAVES
HE TO WOND FOR PEOPLE ARE
NOT USING THAT TO MAKE
DECISIONS, WHAT ARE THEY
USING TO MAKE DECISIONS?
THAT SEEMS SO RATIONAL.
WHAT ARE THEY USING?
>> YES.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE USE
IMPRESSIONS, STEREOTYPES,
ANECDOTES, RUMORS THEORIES
THAT MAKE YOUR OPEN SIDE
LOOK NOBLE AND WISE AND
OTHER SIDE LOOK FOOLISH AND
STUPID.
ALIGNMENT WITH THE TRUTH.
THAT DOING THINGS THAT
ACTUALLY CONFORM TO REALITY,
WE’RE CAPABLE OF IT, THAT IS
HOW WE HOLD A JOB, AND PAY
OUR TAXES.
BUINBUT IN SOME REALMS WE
MAY BE JUST TRYING TO MAKE
OUR OWN SIDE LOOK GOOD.
TREY: ALL RIGHT, SOMEONE WHO
IS WATCHING THIS SAYS THAT
MAKES SENSE, I WANT TO TRAIN
MY FIND THE TO BE OR
RATIONALE DOING ABLE TO
DISREGARD IRRATIONALITY WHEN
I SEE OR HEAR IT, IS IT
POSSIBLE?
IT YOU TRAIN YOUR MIND TO DO
THAT?
>> YES.
THAT IS ONE THING I TRY TO
CONVEY IN MY BOOK, EXPLAIN
THE MAJOR TOOLS OF
RATIONALITY.
THAT DON’T COME NATURALLY TO
US, LIKE LOGIC AND
PROBABILITY AND
DISTINGUISHES CORRELATION
FROM CAUSATION.
PART TO HAVE AT OUR
FINGERPRINTS THE TOOL OF
RATIONALITY, ANOTHER PART TO
BELONG TO COMMUNITIES OF
PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW RULES
THAT ARE AMOUNT OFFEDS --
ARE AIMED AT GETTING AT THE
TRUTH.
NONE OF US IS PERFECTLY WISE
OR RATIONAL, WE’RE FALLIBLE.
WHEN YOU HAVE A GROUP OF
PEOPLE THAT ARE ALLOWED TO
CRITICIZE EACH OTHER’S
FALLACY THAT GIVES YOU HOPE
THAT THE GROUP FOLLOWING
THOSE RULES CAN BE RATIONAL
IN THE WAY EVERY INDIVIDUAL
57PERSON COULD NEVER CLAIM TO BE.
TO BE.
TREY: HOW DOES RATIONALITY
COEXIST WITH LIVE LOVE AND
LOYALTY.
HOW DO WE MARRY UP LOVE AND
LOYALTY AND OTHER THINGS
THAT ARE MAYBE LESS
RELIABLE.
>> THERE IS A KIND OF
RATIONALITY TO IT, WHEN YOU
THINK ABOUT IT.
IF SHE WERE TO CHOOSE THE
BEST LUCKY, FUNNIEST,
RICHEST PERSON, BY LAW OF
AVERAGES SOMEONE BETTER WAS
BOUND TO COME OC LONG IN
FUTURE, SHE WOULD DROP YOU
LIKE A HOT POTATO.
IF SHE LOVED YOU BECAUSE YOU
ARE YOU, THAT UNIQUE PERSON.
THAT AT LEAST GIVES YOU SOME
GROUNDS FOR COMMITTING
YOURSELF TO HER, AND VISA VERSA.
EVEN IF CASES OF ROMANTIC,
INFATTATION FALLING HEAD
OVER HEADLINES THERE IS KIND
OF A RATIONALITY TO IT.
SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO BE A
BLITZER RATIONAL.
TREY: I WATCHED SOME OF YOUR
VIDEOS, I THINK THAT TOPIC
YOU TOOK ON TO WRITE ABOUT,
IT IS FASCINATING.
MY PREVIOUS GUEST WAS IN A
COURTROOM AS WAS I, WE LIKE
LOGIC AND FACTS, I WOULD
LIKE TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN
SOME POINT AND FOR FOLKS
INTERESTED AND RATIONALITY
AND WHY THEY NEED IT.
I RECOMMEND THE PROFESSOR’S
BOOK, THANK YOU FOR JOINING