Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161208:08:54:00
Spots. >> so our mind naturally wants the world to be a more certain place than it is. >> right. >> right? that we don't operate as probabilistic kind of machines. we don't. even though we're often in improbablistic situations. >> always. >> instead of actually doing the statistics, what we do as we move through life is tell story. find patterns. after the fact when we're wrong we tell a story that explains why we're wrong and covers up the whole problem. so these guys were describing essentially the tricks of the -- the problems that arise from the way the mind cope copes with the world. a me...
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