Ep. 13 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
Dr. John Vervaeke
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The Confirmation Bias
If you lose your keys when you're drunk, one of the things you should do if you want to get your keys back is get drunk again because chances are it will improve your memory. All of this is interacting with what's called the confirmation bias. What this is is an adaptive strategy you use where you tend to only look for information that supports your current belief. This leads to very paradoxical things.
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