{"id":106,"date":"2004-09-09T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T22:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/server97.snhdns.com\/~ravik\/wp\/?p=106"},"modified":"2004-09-09T17:47:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T22:47:13","slug":"the-human-mind-is-not-like-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200409\/the-human-mind-is-not-like-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Mind is not like a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am on the question of human psychology, I am reminded of <a href=\"http:\/\/nilakantanrs.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/how-did-logic-come-into-existence-in.html\">Nilu<\/a> speculating that perhaps the logical faculties of human beings must have evolved because being logical gave early humans an advantage over others who weren&#8217;t capable of logical thinking.<br \/>\nYes, but&#8230; things are unfortunately more complicated than that. Please take <a href=\"http:\/\/philosophers.co.uk\/games\/logic_task.htm\">this test<\/a> and you will find out what I meant when I said that humans are wired to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yazadjal.com\/mt\/archives\/000180.html\">combative and not logical.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am on the question of human psychology, I am reminded of Nilu speculating that perhaps the logical faculties of human beings must have evolved because being logical gave early humans an advantage over others who weren&#8217;t capable of logical thinking. Yes, but&#8230; things are unfortunately more complicated than that. Please take this test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}