But if you put individuals together in the right…

But if you put individuals together in the right way, such that some individuals can use their reasoning powers to disconfirm the claims of others, and all individuals feel some common bond or shared fate that allows them to interact civilly, you can create a group that ends up producing good reasoning as an emergent property of the social system.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

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