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Neuroscience shows we're wired, not wired wrong

Contra the idea that neuroscience shows we're 'wired wrong,' what neuroscience actually shows is that we're wired; some people, like Whitman, are wired wrong, but the inference that therefore everyone is wired wrong is a mistaken extrapolation — like a mathematical induction gone wrong — because we can and do still distinguish those who are basically wired right from those who are wired wrong.

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Speaker

Dan Dennett

Evidence Quote

i think it is it is a uh mistaken extrapolation it's it's like a mathematical induction gone wrong

Source

39 - Free Will RevisitedMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:25:04 AM

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