We have no choice but to assume well than we are correct, even if our own handwriting is the source of the challenge. The only reason people don't believe the earth is flat is cause they don't have the fact oreearth is round. And the same thing with attitudes, like in political discourse, like the only reason you support that candidate is you don't have all the facts. I feel like if we can just agree, if we canjust a how the brain actually functions, as youare describing, then you can approach that sort of discourse in a way that will deliver some kind of result.
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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