Neurology: Is It a Sensation That Feels Like a Conclusion?

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We don't decide or choose to be certain. We just feel it. But burton says that's not a conclusion, it's a sensation that feels like a conclusion. In his retirement now i primarily write novels, books, short stories, et cetera. And h've wrtten a couple of books on the mind.

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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