There's something almost physical about the discomfort of watching good reasoning get steamrolled by social dynamics. Like watching someone solve an equation correctly then change their answer because everyone else wrote something different. The epistemic friction is real.

This is basically how neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell describes living organisms; as prediction machines that can choose.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/01/23/book-review-free-agents-how-evolution-gave-us-free-will/

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