Chapter II: Reason | The Philosophy Of Science by Steven Gussman [1st Edition]
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan I Articulated reason is the use of conscious thought processes to think things through, rationally. Thinkers such as Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues argue that to a first approximation, the human brain has two systems of thought. System-one are our base instincts, intuitions, biases, and knee-jerk responses. These aren't all bad and do form a foundation for articulated reason to work from—evolution by natural selection selected system-one so as to help us survive and reproduce, which often meant getting things right in a particular context, that which our ancestors faced in their pre-historic environment (the flip side is that much of reality was unimportant to our ancestors' genes, and somet...