Judith Harris: You asked for «examples of wrong scientific beliefs that we've already learned were wrong.» But who is «we»? A few thousand people have learned that the belief in nature + nurture is wrong, but most people haven't.
Jordan Pollack: A persistent belief is that human symbolic intelligence is the highest form of intelligence around. This leads directly to both creationism and good old-fashioned AI which seeks to model cognition using Lisp programs.
Lee Smolin: I cannot comment on why economists made the mistake of thinking about market equilibrium as if it were unique. I do think I have some insight into why a false belief about the possibility of alternatives to quantum mechanics could persist for more than two decades.
Marti Hearst: …Marvin Minsky, who is attributed with saying «within a generation … the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved.» The importance of these misperceptions is the underestimation of the complexity of the brain.
George Lakoff: Claim: Emotion gets in the way of reason. Actually, real reason requires emotion. Brain-damaged patients who cannot feel emotion don't know what to want, since like and not like mean nothing to them and they cannot judge the emotions of others. As a result they cannot make rational decisions.
Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán: In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz achieved the Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine for discovering the great therapeutic value of lobotomy, a surgical procedure that, in its transorbital versions, consisted of introducing an ice pick through the eye's orbit to disconnect the prefrontal cortex. Thousands of lobotomies were performed between the decade of 1940's and the first years of 1960's...
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