Are Sensations Separated From a Cognitive Function?

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The concept of sensations are necessary to bring things either into nconscious or leave em sublimely. You hear people like william james describe this mysticalor experience of oneness, or everything feels right. But when you have that feeling of knowing, you can't help but feel that you conclude. That's anadmaris marvellous trick of evolution.

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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