{"id":2822,"date":"2014-02-18T01:11:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2014-02-18T01:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T01:11:28","slug":"the-fireplace-delusion-sam-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/the-fireplace-delusion-sam-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fireplace Delusion : : Sam Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Really, really interesting. It&#8217;s so damn hard to see our own blind spots. Anyone have thoughts about this? -egg]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samharris.org\/blog\/item\/the-fireplace-delusion\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Fireplace.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that many nonbelievers have forgotten\u2014or never knew\u2014what it is like to suffer an unhappy collision with scientific rationality. We are open to good evidence and sound argument as a matter of principle, and are generally willing to follow wherever they may lead. Certain of us have made careers out of bemoaning the failure of religious people to adopt this same attitude.<\/p>\n<p>However, I recently stumbled upon an example of secular intransigence that may give readers a sense of how religious people feel when their beliefs are criticized. It\u2019s not a perfect analogy, as you will see, but the rigorous research I\u2019ve conducted at dinner parties suggests that it is worth thinking about. We can call the phenomenon \u201cthe fireplace delusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samharris.org\/blog\/item\/the-fireplace-delusion\/\">The Fireplace Delusion : : Sam Harris<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Really, really interesting. It&#8217;s so damn hard to see our own blind spots. Anyone have thoughts about this? -egg] It seems to me that many nonbelievers have forgotten\u2014or never knew\u2014what it is like to suffer an unhappy collision with scientific rationality. We are open to good evidence and sound argument as a matter of principle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}