This is that you are not so smart podcast. Listeners get ten % off their first month by going to better help dot com slash a n s s. See if on line therapy can help lower your stress. And we are about to listen to an interview with neurologist robert burton. It was very difficult for me to even get a solid answer, or to find any kind of common language around ideas like belief ideas,. Like attitudes, ideas like values.
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 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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