You’re not who you think you are, nor is anyone else: The biases that distort our sense of self and others

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism, Buddhism

4.8 • 886 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi there, thanks for joining and welcome to
0:04.0	Darmapunx New York.
0:06.7	I'm Josh and this is our Tuesday,
0:11.2	evening gathering, online, and we have a few Darmapunks events coming up.
0:19.3	The information is on both Darmapunks NYC.com down in Philadelphia on June 17th,
0:33.2	17th, Philly day long.
0:35.3	It would be really kind of you to consider donating
0:42.0	to support the podcast and my work as a Buddhist pastor
0:46.2	everything's by donation only. So the Venmo is Darma Punk's NYC and the PayPal button is on the website and on the
0:59.6	podcast page so thank you for your support and daily pause 8 a.m. Kathy leads a
1:07.5	meditation Monday through Friday and the Zoom link is in the chat window as well as on the
1:16.0	DarmaPunks website.
1:17.8	So I hope you'll...
1:20.3	So tonight my job is to bombard you with some of the just a little bit of the vast array of information that just shows how truly subjective and unrealistic our experience truly is.
1:41.1	Famous work with Turski and Conman who in the early 70s, I believe it was 1974, they wrote a famous clinical paper called Judgment under uncertainty where they introduce the idea of
1:56.8	cognitive biases which are these implicit meaning they're kind of baked in they're not we're not conscious of
2:05.1	them ways that we habitually distort our views of the world around us and other people.
2:13.6	Our brains have limited resources to construct a sense of reality
2:19.2	and we use fast heuristics, fast cognitive processes to make inferences around about the world, but we often
2:28.0	get it very wrong. It leads to false conclusions. Some of the most basic famous ones are things like confirmation bias,
2:37.0	where we look for information that supports our pre-existing views and we discount information that challenges our
2:47.8	beliefs. So if you're in a debate with someone and someone, a third person brings up information that validates your views, you just
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