Robert Burton: Certainty and similar states of knowing are sensations that feel like thoughts. He says they arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that function independently of reason. After the break, he will tell us all about the arguments he made based on evidence in his book.
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."
Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart