The author argues that the sensation determines how you feel about your own thoughts. We have sensations of agency, causation and even ownership according to his theory. People are eager to get some sort of scientific commentary on why it's so difficult to change your mind," he says. "Because we think in terms of mental sensations, make modern psychology extraordinarily difficult"
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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