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		RamRodification 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shoes, Algernon, Pangea, and sea peoples > But there doesn’t seem to be any cognitive task that you can practice and make yourself better at other cognitive tasks. This seems wrong. Doesn't practicing cognitive tasks often lead to improvement in other cognitive tasks?

more_corn 3 months ago [–]

Doesn’t identifying and challenging logical fallacies make you better at thinking?

Doesn’t acknowledging the possibility of error and allowing conclusions to be overturned by evidence improve the outcomes of cognition?

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