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BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Genetic Component of the Feeling of Knowing

The feeling of knowing is learning's best friend and mental flexibility's worst enemy. Our ability to accept uncertainty may reflect both our experience and our genetic makeup, says Dr. Burton. Any present day understanding of how we know what we know must take into consideration the contradictory nature of thoughts reward systems," he adds.

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