Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Thinking, Fast and Slow > Status Update

"The acquisition of skills a regular environment, an adequate environment, an adequate opportunity to practise, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions" - doesn't seem practicable for a skill as complex as thinking.

"We do not always think straight when reason, and the errors are not always due to intrusive and incorrect intuitions. Often we make mistakes we (our system 2) do not know any better". - equivocation between trying to reason and suceeding to reason. If a mistake in our 'reasoning' in pointed out, we know longer hold its conclusion as 'reasonable'.

"I often cringe when my work with Amos is credited with demonstrating that human choices are irrational, when in fact our research only showed that Humans are not well described by the rational agent model" - because this work shows that human choices are often not internally consistnent, I can't think of any account of rationality which it supports, i.e. human choices are irrational.

"It appears the remembering self is subject to a massive focusing illusion about the life that the experiencing self endures quite confortably." - how did this evolve?

"We cannot hold a concept of well-being that ignores whar people want"

"A disposition for well-being is as heritable as height or intelligence..." - so Hungarians could be genetically pessimistic?

"Life satisfaction is not flawed measure of their experienced well-being, as I thought some years ago. It is something else entirely." - this whole theory is in urgent need of philosophical analysis.

"Many point out that they would not send either themselves or another amnesiac to climb mountains or trek through the jungle - because these experiences are mostly painful in real time" - hmmm

"Confusing experience with the memory of it is a compelling cognitive illusion - and it is the substitution that makes us believe a past experience can be ruined." - vs. "for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"my hope is that readers of this book have acquired [a sensitivity to the power of inconsequential factors as determinants of preference] - my hope would be to acquire an immunity.