efpresron

I wish i had this back when I was teaching gen-ed science courses in college. I tried to do something similar, but at a much smaller scale. Some random observations, that would help flesh the content out:

1. A big reason "type 1" reasoning is so often wrong is these decision making modules evolved under very different conditions than we currently live in.

2. I always liked Pinker's description (from "How the Mind Works") of the nature of the conscious mind by reverse-engineering it: it is a simulation of a serial process running on parallel wetware, for handling problems of astronomic combinatorial difficulty. This relates nicely to the cost of type 2 processes.

3. The modular nature