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I think it's important that we have been spending a little bit of time busting myths
about how we intuitively think that the mind works, but we need to replace it with a more
realistic version of how the mind might actually be working.
Here we've introduced the two systems: system one and system two. System one: intuitive,
fast and automatic. System two: slow and deliberate. We also discussed that the world is complex
and ambiguous. There's so much information coming at us, sometimes misinformation, how
do we deal with it all? Some of the ways that Danny Kahneman in that kind of tradition talks
about heuristics and biases. Today we discussed availability heuristic, representativeness
heuristic, anchoring. These are all ways that we can help deal with that complexity and
ambiguity and do better in the world. Exactly. We ended with this idea of expertise.
I think this idea of system one and two is really useful metaphor, as Danny Kahneman
points out. If you were to look in the brain and find system one and system two, you wouldn't
find it. I mean, it doesn't really make sense to talk about the two systems as though
you can find them neurologically, as though they're a thing. They're not. They're
metaphors. I think it's useful to think about system one and two in terms of these
characters because it reframes the way we think about dealing with these kind of issues.
We also talked about it with respect to expertise and the development of expertise, turning
the system to the deliberate process into system one eventually.
What we're going to see in the next episode is how we can turn ourselves into experts
in a sense. We're going to see better ways of learning and retaining information, so
we're going to see how to boost learning and remember the information we do learn in the first place.