David McRaney: We all feel like we should have access to the sources of our thoughts, behaviors, emotions. He says most of the time that influence is outside of our conscious experience. In an experiment people didn't know why they picked a particular stocking but when asked it was easy for them to come up with an explanation. It's a lie that we don't realize is a lie," he says.
In this episode, we discuss confabulation with neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, and at the end of the episode we taste a cranberry chocolate chip cookie while contemplating positive affirmations.
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