Is the Human Mind Wired for Logical Thought? | StarTalk

so as we know Richard Dawkins is very
outspoken about sort of religiosity in
the world and atheism and he wants to
convince people to think logically
perhaps on the assumption that if you do
then you won’t think religiously perhaps
III don’t know if it’s that easy and
when he dropped by my office I snared an
interview with him for a start talk the
first thing we discussed was the
capacity of the human mind to think
logically is check it out
there’s any one subject that the most
number of people say I was never good at
insert a topic it’s gonna be math and so
I say to myself if our brain were wired
for logical thinking
then math would be everyone’s easiest to
subject and everything else would be
harder so I am kind of forced to
conclude that our brain is not wired for
logic many many people are extremely
illogical but and they buy the way
because they get along just fine in life
but I think it’s an interesting point
that our wild ancestors needing to
survive in the in the presence of lands
and drought and famine and things you
think logic would be pretty important
for survival if not mathematics well it
could be maybe early people who said
there’s a creature there with big teeth
let me investigate it further I mean in
a way that’s right the real scientific
is it is a bad thing curiosity doesn’t
always work my I had a cousin as that
who is a little boy put his finger in
the in the Mane’s and got a shock so he
did it again just to make sure he’s the
real scientist but not very good for
survival