Illusions of causality: how they bias our everyday thinking and how they could be reduced
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00888/full
Illusions of causality occur when people develop the belief that there is a causal connection between two events that are actually unrelated.
We cannot think of a better safeguard against the illusions of causality than scientific thinking, which involves skepticism, doubt, and rigorously applying scientific methods, particularly the experimental approach.
How to decrease likelihood of experiencing illusions of correlation or causality:
@choutos does me "believing in god" because i think "if universe is always expanding. It certainly real that all the thing in universe were most likely to be at singularity at some point in the past and then something just messed with the singularity which causing it to explode and keep expanding. Which means there's should be an entity that most likely to make, start or involved in that process."
Count as illusion as well ?
@ravenclaw No. I would say that's more in the realm of metaphysics as it's something we cannot prove or disprove.
@choutos thanks! I don't know if i'm going to be happy or sad with that answer.
But cheers anyway!
@ravenclaw preach :V
@choutos
@ravenclaw I say go forth and preach :V
young... father... pope?
@ravenclaw Why not? Religions proved to be a good business.
@ravenclaw not much to do other than being aware, I guess. Also from time to time "yelling" at people who try to assert their religion disguised as science.
@choutos