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Gurwinder Bhogal — Certainty is the Death of Thought (EP.155)
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The Importance of Convincing Ourself of Truth
Our minds are not trained to argue for what's true, says David Frum. They're designed to convince ourselves of things that we need to believe in order to be part of the tribe and increase our status within that tribe. The brain is a social system that tries to ingratiate humans into tribes; this needs to always be factored in when trying to make predictions about human behavior.
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