Speaker: Nassim Talib Playlist: www.youtube.com The “La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Re-Evolution” Festival witnessed a very exciting event, where great theologists, philosophers and thinkers debated over the eternal conflict between science and religion, reason with faith and Darwin vs The Bible. The opinions and views expressed are strong, we recommend open-mindedness for its enjoyment. Debaters: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (new atheists) vs. Shmuley Boteach, Dinesh D’Souza …
I’ve heard NNT make this argument before – Better religion than something else. He’s hinted in various podcasts that the next book will be about belief. I can’t remember where but he sites as very important, Daniel Gilbert’s paper ‘How Mental Systems Believe’. In case you’re curious, the best link to that paper I could find is at: http://www.neuroethics.ox.ac.uk/node/470
“*Dan Gilbert showed in a famous paper, “How Mental Systems Believe,” that we are not natural skeptics and that not believing required an expenditure of mental effort”–NNT in The Black Swan, page 203.