
LTBP #107 - Mike MacDonald: Self-Delusion And Cognitive Bias
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How Confabulation Helps Us Accept Our Reality
The brain naturally does for us is just creates a story to help us make sense of our reality. So there's a condition in which people don't, it's like an illness where they don't feel the emotional feeling of recognition when they see someone they know. And rather than accept that for themselves what they do is they tell themselves the story that their family and friends have been abducted and replaced by aliens. But if I don't I just see your face with the face looks familiar but there's no sort of emotional recognition. We just, we make up stories to help us accept our reality.
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