
Session 155: All About Beliefs (part 1)
Brain Software with Mike Mandel
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Is Belief True or False?
Beliefs to me are much closer to opinions. They're not provable as correct or false. So I don't mean like it's true for you, but it doesn't have to necessarily be true. People go to Google and say do British people have the best sense of humor in the world? No, it's 30 articles proving that you're correct. We bring in the confirmation bias instead and we look for things to support our beliefs automatically. If these beliefs are sorting data and filtering what comes in, we tend to delete that which we do not want to appear as true. The old philosophy, the model in philosophy, yeah, the old NLP model is that every behavior
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