Karen’s Reviews > Thinking, Fast and Slow > Status Update

At this point in the book I’m wondering why humans evolved to have complex thoughts in the first place

Confidence is a feeling that reflects the coherence of the information and the cognitive ease of processing it. It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind not necessarily that the story is true.

I’m hooked but this is one of the most difficult books I’ve ever read. Having a hard time wrapping my head around these concepts. I must have a lazy System 2 indeed.