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Making Sense with Sam Harris

CHAPTER

The Brain Is a Storyteller

David Irving is fascinated by why people believe crazy things. He says the brain wants to make us a hero in the story of our lives. When they have unorthodox information, they think it really must spread - whether it's about vaccines or anything else, politics. 'The brain isn't particularly interested in the truth,' he writes. "It's much more interested in motivating us"

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