Reason and Less Pursuing Food, Sex, and Politics

• Main Author: Goel, Vinod (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Behavioural economics; rational; reasoning; decision making; instincts; heuristics; emotions; feelings; human nature; irrational; arational; belief revision; behavioral economics; neural plasticity; changing worldviews; science denial; human behavior; human behaviour; tethered rationality; blended response; brains; neural development; evolution; minds; politics; conspiracy theories; weight management; climate change; overeating; lust; sex; food; in group outgroup bias; cheaters; gender roles; impeachment; covid-19
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A new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vinod Goel explains the workings of the tethered mind. Reason does not float on top of our biology but is tethered to evolut...