Wic tho im one victim of my own beliefa, well, i can tell you, watching people, there's thee three techniques, deep canvassing, a, the persuasive pyramid, and the other one is a a street epistemology. All of them are sort of socratic method on stairoids kind of things. And what they're trying to do is separate out the conclusion from the process that arrived of arriving at it. It's all done outside of consciousness, and is what makes us so unbelievably ignorant ofwhat we are as people. You may say your unexamined life isn't worth living, but examining doesn't mean ta,. But unfortunately, if you get
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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