When we are challenged with evidence that we might be wrong if the brain continues to produce this mental state of certainty we have no choice but to just assume well then we're correct even if our own handwriting is the source of the challenge. There's a sense of like if we can accept it then we can work with the way the brain actually functions instead of the assumptions that we often had. If you'd get away from the idea of being a man is being rational agent you really screwed in terms of presenting any information anybody on the other hand if you believe that people are rational agents you have to believe that your line of reasoning is superior to someone else and therefore may be subject to the same kinds
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 that 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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