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Zoologie der Vigilanz

The Owl and the Duck: On Failures of Vigilance

What makes people more vigilant about false information? For philosophers and cognitive psychologists, the term “epistemic vigilance” describes a set of “methods people routinely use…to filter out liars and the uninformed” (Michaelson 214). But where do these routines come from?

Hypnagoge Vögel

You can never see these birds anywhere except in Google land which is far far away, and only children can go there; and even they must be nearly – but not quite – asleep. „Du kriegst diese Vögel nie zu sehen, außer im Google-Land, das weit, weit weg ist, und nur Kinder können dorthin kommen; und selbst die müssen schon beinah – aber noch nicht ganz – schlafen.“ (Vickers/Beck 2020)