ext_2941 ([identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] ciphergoth 2009-01-06 11:04 pm (UTC)

Or more directly through discussing empirical psychology, which can be pretty mind-blowing. I've just received "Mistakes Were Made" and "Predictably Irrational" from Amazon...

Derren Brown's "Tricks of the Mind" is also interesting like that - he's famous as a conjuror, but he was an evangelical Christian and is now a fairly outspoken atheist and skeptic, and IIRC he talks about how he started to understand how people fool themselves through practicing conjuring, and that he couldn't help but notice the same traits in religion.


Post a comment in response:

(will be screened)
(will be screened if not validated)
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org