How the Human Brain Reacts to Uncertainty

One of the things that we think does well is it remembers the past. The more times you think about something and sort of tell a story about it, elaborate it and that'll add to the original memory. So say if you met someone at a party and you just met him in part in the ending of it, that'll be a very neutral memory. You see their face on the news five years later, they've been charged with a serial killer. That becomes a very vivid memory over a sudden. It's not a hard and fast concrete guide to the past. No. What is something that the human brain isn't particularly good at or doesn't handle well?

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