231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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Is There a Next Era of Thinking About Thinking?
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"
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