The Inverse of Belief

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There's a difference between the ease of processing when we believe something and the difficulty in processing when we have to actively become skeptical or actively disbelieve like there seems to be something different. talk about these studies in which people are they are given very clear clearly obviously not true things and then they are measured in an fMRI. I know your work on assimilation and accommodations probably shows that in a similar way as your your belief is simply assimilated in the brain just kind of sifts into there disbelief which fascinated me was actually in the same parts of the brain as they um is discussed and the old factory.

In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, the different personal narratives that guide our behaviors and motivations and goals, and, perhaps most importantly, our willingness to be surprised again so that we can change and grow.

In the show, you will how we can use the current understanding of how surprise leads to learning, and how learning depends on interpretation, to improve our lives, and the lives of others