Indigenza cognitiva. Rischio per l’umanità

We believe that up to now the due attention has not been paid to the notion
of the cognitive poor, (cognitive miser), often reductive associated with the notion of
stingy cognitive. In parallel, we have forgotten the lesson of M. Minsky, who considered
cognitive self-control to be a specific sign of humans and which frees
thought from the vice of simplism, sloppiness and ease, generating unjustified
pressure and credulity. In recent days, even health specialists have struggled to
recognize the first unmistakable signs of the incipient pandemic, with serious
consequences for everyone. The great absentee seems to have been common sense,
and therefore the ability to grasp analogies, similarities, identities... The man of
complex society, the citizen of the globalized world seems to be poor in common
sense: an indigence towards which our work is oriented.