essay: we are all confident idiots
Dunning observes that “An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge.” How does the metaphor of the mind as a vessel (be it spotless and empty or cluttered) help to develop his argument?
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