Nicholas Conrad on Nostr: Citing the behavior of people with brain damage to explain normal human behavior is ...
Citing the behavior of people with brain damage to explain normal human behavior is certainly an interesting approach. Sure, for people with brain damage, I'll grant you perhaps they are not rational actors.
But for the rest of us we have decades of high-power behavioral economics studies to prove people (by and large) respond to incentives. Which means they are acting praxiologically, not just doing random things willy-nilly all the time and then post-hoc rationalizing them.
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