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The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. 2017. S. Sloman and P. Fernbach. New York, NY: Penguin. 2% pages.
Everyone suffers under the knowledge illusion-people think they know more than they actually know. Sloman and Fernbach explain that to act, human brains have evolved to create and store abstract representations of concepts, allowing human beings to navigate physical and social environments. However, people are almost universally fooled into believing that because they know, for example, how and when...