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#261 — Belief & Identity
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Role of Feelings and Emotions in Changing Beliefs
The role of feelingsd emotions in this whole process of belief is really interesting. Just because we we feel something is true, for example, doesn't mean or good for us and certainly in our experiments, we saw the involvement of negative emotions. The red flag for me is when you want reality to be a certain way, and you're trying to convince yourself that it is that way. There's a reason why wishful thinking and obvious bias in the direction of conflicts of interest goes by under many framings. And there's some evidence that these feelings might ate the whole process of believed change.
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