The following is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy do not adjust your computer telephone tablet or television we will be controlling all that you seen and hear and maybe even what you think so sit back relax and enjoy the world of covenanter sciences. In less than 20 years the internet revolution has had a deep impact on Human Behavior than all other media so that today it even affects the way we think. Imagined and invented stories and even outright lies. Become prominent in our media landscape how could this be. What underpins their popularity. Why is it that weve come to down to expert testimony. Could it be that our brains are predisposed towards compelling nonsense. When the World Wide Web was invented in the 1990 s. It was imagined as a democratic space that would provide everyone direct access to all of Human Knowledge yet today it seems knowledge is being eclipsed by conviction and we are all at risk of being dragged down into a democracy of the gullible. Supporter usual dream theres now a competition between information providers from professional journalists to anyone with a facebook or twitter profile to capture our finite attention that will just put you generally get a job it would i never look at twitter and never comment on anything on twitter on face or likely if you keep hearing on t. V. About something going viral so well you know that when was the last time a you to a comic change someones opinion could go. The internet has profoundly changed how we communicate as well as the rules of disseminating information. The value of truth and facts has been diminished online opinions are ranked according to engagement so that a much liked Facebook Post can be more prominent than an encyclopedia entry. It if you dont like the popular content is a problem because that determines whether it can reach and attempt to convince me its going to become more important is it possibly to do the likelihood of capturing peoples attention is increased if you shape your content to follow the direction of the brains natural bias ease of. The internet today is full of manipulation beliefs and superstitions. And the key culprit is not Google Facebook or even the illuminati but our very own brains. Our mind sometimes lead us away from objective reality they allow a number of shortcuts deviations from russia analyse that serve as entry point to socalled Cognitive Biases. These biases act on the way we think that theyd like how an optical illusion fools they are but recognising our little intellectual lapses is as difficult for us as it would be for a person who was born blind to understand an optical illusion. Take this checkerboard boxes a and b. Are exactly the same shade of gray but even when the illusion is revealed we continue to feel there is some kind of trick. We can see just how powerful these effects are in magic magicians are masters of manipulation Cognitive Biases. Are set so low that if we removed all biases it would be very difficult to make magic come to life that it probably wouldnt be perceived as magic but as special effects the true emotion we feel the sense of wonder we have watching magic im not sure there would be any of that left without our inherent bias is that. Magician create illusions that seem to defy the laws of physics. He does so also by exploiting our Natural Inclination to believe. Also so i think over time the human brain created certain shortcuts that enable us to be more efficient but which also lead to errors of perception. Cognitive biases may make us more efficient in everyday life but they explode online. Here our natural weaknesses are exploited. And his poke the democracy of the gullible job of a well known sociologist from the paris de gaulle university has dissected the various biases in our brains that influence our judgment on the internet starting with doubt. A downside is fundamental especially in democracies people have a fundamental right to doubt things from official communications to scientific proposals but as i follow painfully learned the seeds of doubt can be easily planted sometimes just for the sake of doing so. If the right to doubt is not accompanied by jus diligence its a real threat to democracy a good reason on the internet doubt is amplified by countless untrustworthy sources and although there are tools to check the truth of posts few people make that effort. By example for example you dont a priori believe that a man never walked on the moon. That bill should have probably soared on t. V. And so forth but by utilizing doubts we can tell you a story that will lead you step by step to a conclusion that seems completely unlikely at 1st. The belief that Neil Armstrong never set foot on the moon is untenable the u. S. S. R. Would have been delighted to denounce even the slightest deception it was easy for them to aim their antennas towards the moon to confirm or refute the transmission losses and for those who say a satellite could have broadcast the images from space remember that in 1909 a 100 megabyte disk weighed a ton and the saturn 5 rocket may have been able to transport the d. V. D. Into space it would have had no room left for a player to play it on. Board a ferris wheel and 20092012 evidence from indian chinese and american probes put an end to the room as she will need to do to do if you were to doubt everything you couldnt live view for example youd say i know ill burn my head if i put it close to a fire because ive already done that but what about my fruit my head i havent tried those yet let that if i see. How Cognitive Biases and our emotions influence reasoning is a subject of great interest to is about that shes a professor at the university of beck a tough. It didnt bear how many doubt allows us to reassess our beliefs but at the same time we dont abandon everything because of one example that contradicts what we believe. Or we have a tendency to characterize and categorize things are actually a new noise falls off a tree near us. We have an innate predisposition to attend to human faces this is crucial for recognizing people. But the same bias can lead us to question facts and believe in the presence of for example an ancient civilization on mars. And thats our boys and mash our brain is a sense made on machine so it is not surprising that we have difficulty accepting coincidence as an explanation yet when we see you know why shaped cloud in the sky of course theres no unicorn there but our brains superimposes that impression. And we see those types of cognitive processes often if at any point you saw them all and. If we asked a person whether they would use the numbers 12345618 lot of the ticket things most would say no because theyd feel they wouldnt win on that on this either what i think is best yeah its all the guy. We constantly encounter content that exploits our difficulties and understanding statistics and probabilities our dismissal of coincidence as explanation influences our preferences in the tarrant of information. But a little love the deregulation of the information markedly jannah some of our minds natural slopes by for example if you have one chance in a 1000 of hitting the bulls eye with a dart its only extraordinary if you hit it if you havent tried a 1000 times. The need for the manipulation is to. Nor the sample size amid the 999. 00 tries that failed film the one that succeeded and say hes incredibly talented isnt the more do we spot. These days we are ceaseless lee alerted to very low risks and that has turned us into a society of hypochondriacs something that may have been useful in the past but is now cumbersome. For example we have retained our craving for sugar despite the consequences this has for our bodies such biases and heritage from our ancestors and not defects per se on not only want that long ago certain bias seas were arguably extremely useful lets say you lived in a hostile environment if you heard a rustling in the bushes it would be better to overestimate the risk and run because if you dont you might not be around long enough to tell the tale and pass on your genetic code. But in the jungle of the internet overestimating mess can lead to troubling results. Says conspiracists often think that when 2 events occur at the same time its not a coincidence obviously theres a correlation is not the same as causation but if things are related people say causality. Each and her studied physics before specializing in the history of science hes particularly interested in the evolution of critical thinking. Skills like on the loss of the short it all it did was something as our lawyers are destroying it is like yelling out i was ahead snack if you get an infinite terrorist theres a law that says if it takes this much energy to create a crash itll take 100. 00 times more to destroy it legally. Hello. This law was formulated by a better bet and an Italian Program in 2013 a lot of legislation. Which study. Shit sprayed the list with next year got equal to about that it must either said that he studied. Under leading formulated this principle after observing italys former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi live on Television Without anyone being able to set the record straight. On my part i think they might say. That. This principle is used and to be used by scammers conspiracists and a growing number of politicians. On a market where we say everyone has a right to speak which is good and everyone takes the truth which is another thing our minds including mine will be tempted to accept that which resembles truth even if it contradicts the actual truth. And. We have a mental tendency to accept the latest Conspiracy Theory wave after wave ag 70. So we might begin by being wary of palm oil rightly or wrongly that brings us to another Science Research is about something entirely different israels role in the terrorist attacks for example this aggregates into a multilayered construct which is intimidating even for those who do not believe it. On this bill in the early 2000 we still hopes that the internet would spread massive amounts of knowledge but that hasnt happened at all 2nd ordered in a funny type of democracy its what i call the democracy of the gullible yes its true the internet is democratizing because it gives everyone access to public space but while some voter 1000 times others never voted at all and often those who vote most carry the strongest and most radical convictions and beliefs vics you do quite yall swaddle had to sit on a loss i could for you generally associate with those who think like us and view those who dont as fools young someone things like us often we tend to believe theyre intelligent but theyre someone it would be nice to have coffee with them or yeah this is exactly whats happening on the internet except much worse. As opinions are polarized into opposing camps diversity of viewpoints and new answers disappear. Small highly motivated groups often attract so many clicks that their positions appear to be much more representative than they really are. Years ago here in the of minorities who are louder than others unfortunately tyrannies know how to exploit the apathy of good reasonable people. To texas donnish in how conspiracy theories use highly technical arguments in a wide variety of fields. She said i can really design them up you accumulate arguments that have nothing to do with each other and which are all quite weak but bundled together the unprepared mind thinks they cant all be false he loves why conspiracy theories all the Anti Vaccine Movement have such persuasive power that its not that people believe each and every argument but there are so many of them counts as a. Unit their. Mental shortcuts help our brains save energy but they also need to biases such as the least effort principle which make us easier targets. Early to rule is an conspiracy theories have existed for a long time in human imagination you know. Rehashing is an internet speciality since old fake news is quickly forgotten it can be used again this fresh news a few months later. Unlike us the internet never forgets. Didnt let that get moved do in a sense the internet has transformed an oral tradition into a written one at the end with the copy paste function its easy to distribute silly nonsense. Its like a dialogue of the deaf when a small group like the 911. 00 truth theres Still Believes the fall of the twin towers was a government conspiracy. You do to look. Like i also believe that its impossible for an inexperienced pilot to fly a boeing with control because a video gamer fail to do so is far from reality t. V. For once in the air flying is almost childs play secret you could train a chimpanzee to do it. Deployed furthermore no one had ever seen an aircraft crash at full speed into one of the most solid buildings ever built originally pentagon that good. To get excited its pointless to argue with those who believe in conspiracy theories such as that the American Government deciding illions. The Mainstream Media shouldnt feed off twitter reports only legitimate news and not engage with things that are pure delirium the oh shit. The least effort principle might be seen as the father of all biases being lazy can be useful and we can all be a bit gullible. On the. Did this we dont have the power to completely disconnect from our prior knowledge and those expectations hopes and emotions us we are almost always biased only process information folks who doesnt necessarily that it serves a function it reduces the difficulty of processing our environment. It to fact there are 2 ways to accomplish a reasoning task one is more in shoes with automatic and faster and demands less continuity of juice the other exercises reasoning and reflection and requires more competent resources. You know not to too far is a great article saying that 70 percent of Internet Users only read headlines and to prove it the body was in placeholder text so many people shared it saying 70 percent of Internet Users only read headlines. Is this kind of reduction in if it is frightening gleeful most of all so our brains are lazy in general we go through every day life and belief mode. And believe mode has advantages over knowledge because it doesnt require much effort we just believe on quell this. Through. The belief about camp trails it imagines a conspiracy whereby the American Government and the pharmaceutical industry use airlines to spread toxic substances to poison people and influence world affairs. The main suspects are human reptile hybrids and more luminati young jeezy you mean that. There are many erroneous beliefs that dont have any knock on effects people believe the sun moves around the earth its what they see every day the sun rises in the east and sets in the west the scientific truth here is obstruct so that was fiction vitebsk that even that they could you share lets not worry about such in consequential beliefs we should focus on those beliefs that have consequences. If a group wants to change the law because they believe in camp trails thats something we should deal will. Never kill you know everyone has opinions i always say twitter and facebook are really just part talk all this that on a global scale. Shave the bat give it in the past always stayed at the bar where as now our nonsense is put on twitter and broadcast to the world this will be a woman. On the ball even the most intelligent person in the world could still be fooled by a magician. Because that person does not have access to all the information the magician has. Which can lead to the impression of precedence well teleportation or the spontaneous appearance of an object an object at all it was over there is always a trick im convinced that even Albert Einstein could have been taken in by magic we know theres a trick but we like to forget while watching our oil. Unlike the internet we do not have unlimited resources the principle of least effort makes us accept easy explanations we only see what we want to see and we adopt the majority view. Thats all the vision we invent a magic trick we create those conditions ultimately we for the brain and make it draw false conclusion falls. The fact that the fault is to rely on automatic cognitive processes allows the internet to make use of anything that is likely to deceive the spread of computer viruses and online scams are good examples as these largely play on our instinctive biases the fundamental law for it takes a similar skill set to plan a bank robbery has to come up with a trick that puts a cell phone inside a bottle that doesnt what they call this thing in Computer Science a virus is generally a Program Designed to act maliciously on a computer mansurs most all of the other women ive seen choose from street to. Deal with tupac image but i think people are more to convince your employer. Well. Maybe one person. Because youre. Magic is often associated with scams because we use similar tactics. The simplest advice which sadly is seldom followed is to carry out updates. The least effort principle is a boon for scam artists we rarely change default settings and often use predictable passwords. Fast the best and i dont think anyone is 100 percent protective we all have subconscious prejudices we all have things we believe or want to believe while any one of us can afford by a scammer who pulls the right straight and appears at the right moment while. Computer experts have more information than most of us. We sometimes forget that storing data in the cloud actually mean sending it to massive data centers. There are many many websites that talk about ken trays the loch ness monster and such. Lets consider how many sites Internet Users may visit to learn about a subject well of course who divorced wont look at more than 30 so if we take the top 30 sites listed on Google Search and look at how many support a particular belief or ya many argue it out from a rational point of view us and how many a neutral we find that 70 percent of those sites will support a belief with this heat quite yes. Cognitive biases help us to tame our fear of the unknown we have a tendency to adopt the 1st belief that fills a void. When you ask someone whether theyre superstitious most will say no thats you its