內容簡介
內容簡介 世界愈來愈複雜,人類卻未正視自己的無知。 如何才能避免自以為是, 進而提高我們的決策準確率,獲得更好的結果? 這是一本精準有趣的人類智慧使用手冊,將帶你從認知科學的全新角度去了解人的思考和心智,為生活、理財和未來,做出最佳選擇!其實我們沒有自己想得那麼聰明,但並不表示我們不能生活得更好。懂得在知識上謙卑、認清理解的侷限,然後將他人的智慧占為己用,我們就能為每件事做出正確的選擇。在社交媒體盛行、假新聞層出不窮的時代,人們搞不清楚自己不懂哪些事,對自身的無知渾然不覺,許多評論和錯誤觀念才會難以改變,本書正是要探討這種「知識的假象」。人類之所以能主宰地球,是因為無與倫比的群體思考能力,正因為智慧存在於眾人之中,不屬於任何個人,因此我們可以在集思廣益之下修正弱點和錯誤,運用知識共同體打造出異常強大的社會頭腦。當人類真正「知己所不知」,明白自己也是問題的一環,才能在需要時獲得協助,填補知識上的漏洞。無論是投資理財、感情觸礁、購買房產、人際關係等,我們可以擷取知識共同體的資源,克服與生俱來的限制,做出更聰明適切的決定。 The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally ignorant, irrational and prone to making simple mistakes every day. In this groundbreaking book, cognitive scientists Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach show how our success as a species is down to us living in a rich community of knowledge where we are drawing on information and expertise outside our heads. And we have no idea that we are even doing it. Utilizing cutting-edge research, The Knowledge Illusion explains why we think we know more than we do, why beliefs are so hard to change and why we are so prone to making mistakes. Providing a blueprint for successful ways to work in collaboration to do amazing things, it reveals why the key to human intelligence lies in the way we think and work together.