I think it's really neat too, because there are so many assumptions in western philosophy that are just based off a complete jus tha's not how the brain works. It's odd to go into epistemology and try to use that as a way to discuss how we should be better members of society. I look at some of the books that have come out recently, and you how did you come up with that ideaand why would you think that one? One of the ones strikes me as most interesting is, let's say, do you think there's more or less violence now than there was a hundred years ago? Well, first question is, what do you mean by violence?
In this episode, we sit down with neurologist Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain, a book that fundamentally changed the way I think about what a belief actually is. That’s because the book posits conclusions are not conscious choices, and certainty is not even a thought process. Certainty and similar states of “knowing,” as he puts it, are "sensations that feel like thoughts, but arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that function independently of reason."
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