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003 - Confabulation

You Are Not So Smart

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The Left Hemisphere Is Your Devil's Advocate

There's always a push for antagonism. I mean the desire to preserve stability of behavior. The tendency to not accept information is contrary to your in essence of narrative. We think all these denial mechanisms is Freudian denials, rationalization, confabulation, denial, repression,. mainly done in the left hemisphere of the brain. Right hemisphere is your devil's advocate. If the denial becomes excessive, it keeps you in the button and says look, you're over doing it. You better face up the reality. Because of the damage to the right parietal. So that is an excuse.

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