Scientists believe you are irrelevant to the decision

2018-03-01 15:42

Scientists believe you are irrelevant to the decision
Long known that a person has a logic, the ability to analyze and ability to make informed decisions. And now it became known that he almost never uses.

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It seemed clear in this world since the days when Peter and Dylan a textbook of mathematics bummed fruit, while Pete got four apples, and Vova – two oranges. And we had to decide what to do with them. It is clear that Peter, for example, can trade two apples for one orange, if he likes citrus, I am just a fan of apples. And it would be logical to the General satisfaction of the parties, reports Rus.Media.

But later, as adults, we were surprised to notice that in reality everything will be different. Both will fluctuate. Peter will pretend doesn’t eat oranges, but offended, that was not offered. Vova at this time pdevice older brother, so he caught Peter and took the apples. In the end Peter will stuff brother Vova’s face, the police come, the apples will be sealed and all will go on the TV show.

The amazing thing is that same illogical behavior we can observe not only the Petit and Vova, but some politicians, financiers, military, startups and even ourselves. And well, that just appeared Moran CERF is a neuroscientist from northwestern University in Seattle. For many years he enjoyed the tomograms of the brain works, the result of which came to some weird conclusions.

First, CERF believes that the search for solutions strong and quickly tired of the brain. Think much more expensive than feel. Second, the right decisions are almost inaccessible to us: we are affected by emotions, social conventions, hormonal outbursts and a ton of factors. And the right thing in this situation is to surround yourself with people whose worldview we like. Still our decisions will depend on the society, so even though this society will be adequate.

However, our surroundings also depends on hormones, prejudices and magnetic storms. And cognitive distortions that even Wikipedia already lists more than the horsemen of the Apocalypse. And very very strange things: back in 2014 a team of scientists led by Emile Coccaro from the University of Chicago found that Toxoplasma gondii, which is almost every cat, and thus of its owner, affects the psyche, reinforcing the risk appetite.

A year ago, neuroscientists from the University of Cork and the max Planck Institute confirmed that thinking quite strongly affected by the intestinal flora, through which the metabolism of many neurotransmitters.

That is, if all this is summarized, it turns out that instead of rationalizing, we usually accept the decisions that we explicitly or implicitly dictated by our environment. In this case check with cat’s Toxoplasma and own colon. That certainly explains a lot in the world, but can serve as a source of pride. After all, if we somehow exist, we are just great!