Il libro: Steven Slomach and Philip Fernbach tell us in The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone.
Premessa sappiamo molto meno di quel che crediamo di sapere. Come funziona una bicicletta? Come funziona un accendino? Come funziona un bagno? Quando valutiamo la nostra conoscenza siamo molto più ottimisti rispetto a quando siamo chiamati a dimostrarlo. Perché?
Sopravvalutiamo la nostra conoscenza perché sappiamo che a conoscere è comunque il nostro alveare. L' llusione della conoscenza riguarda in particolar modo coloro che appartengono a gruppi Dov'è la conoscenza è particolarmente elevata The Collective Hivemind
the most important reason that we’re ignorant about so many things is that we don’t have to be knowledgeable. As social animals, humans have divided up labour since the days of the hunter-gatherer. In today’s knowledge economy, things are no different....there is no clear defined boundary between one person’s knowledge from another...We also suffer from the knowledge illusion because we confuse what experts know with what we ourselves know. The fact that I can access someone else’s knowledge makes me feel like I already know what I’m talking about...Children suffer from an illusion of comprehension because they can access the knowledge they need. It is in their textbook and in the heads of their teacher...As a collective species, we’re really intelligent. But as individuals, it appears that most of us suffer from a lack of humility.
Ignorance Is Bliss, Illusion Is Not https://medium.com/the-polymath-project/ignorance-is-bliss-illusion-is-not-c97d3d7b016f?source=rss----5977fd7213bd---4
