causal

Mistaking the Model for Reality

A huge problem in science and economics is confusing reality with the model—the left hemisphere has a model and mistakes it for reality; economists and finance professors spend too much time thinking of human beings as maximizing machines, and the danger is that when you describe people a certain way, you start to think it is actually true and that it is rational to act that way, which is extremely destructive.

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Speaker

Iain McGilchrist

Evidence Quote

The left hemisphere has a model; and it mistakes it for reality.

Source

Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His EmissaryEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:15:28 AM

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