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A review by moonbites
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Steven Sloman
3.0
2.5 stars
There were some very interesting ideas that were explored in this. It gives you a greater appreciation for what you don't know. The book definitely got me to assess my own knowledge differently.
Here are some pretty cool quotes from the book that really stood out to me,
"Our point is not that people are ignorant. It’s that people are more ignorant than they think they are. We all suffer, to a greater or lesser extent, from an illusion of understanding, an illusion that we understand how things work when in fact our understanding is meager."
"Members of the community are critically dependent on each other. No one is an island; no one knows it all; collaborative learning is necessary for survival. This interdependence promotes an atmosphere of joint responsibility, mutual respect, and a sense of personal and group identity."
However this was a required reading for my class so that kind of took the fun out of reading it. I also felt that there were parts in this that were overly emphasized or that seemed to drag on and weren't that interesting. Which is pretty ironic considering that the book talks about how we pick and choose what we find to be useful information and tend to skim other things.
There were some very interesting ideas that were explored in this. It gives you a greater appreciation for what you don't know. The book definitely got me to assess my own knowledge differently.
Here are some pretty cool quotes from the book that really stood out to me,
"Our point is not that people are ignorant. It’s that people are more ignorant than they think they are. We all suffer, to a greater or lesser extent, from an illusion of understanding, an illusion that we understand how things work when in fact our understanding is meager."
"Members of the community are critically dependent on each other. No one is an island; no one knows it all; collaborative learning is necessary for survival. This interdependence promotes an atmosphere of joint responsibility, mutual respect, and a sense of personal and group identity."
However this was a required reading for my class so that kind of took the fun out of reading it. I also felt that there were parts in this that were overly emphasized or that seemed to drag on and weren't that interesting. Which is pretty ironic considering that the book talks about how we pick and choose what we find to be useful information and tend to skim other things.