How to find truth
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- ...The central metaphor of these four chapters is that the mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning—the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes—the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.
Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
working quite hard at reasoning. But it was not reasoning in search of truth; it was reasoning in support of their emotional reactions.
Haidt, Jonathan. The Righteous Mind (p. 29). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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