The Borderland Between Psychiatry and Neurology

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The book is about the borderland between psychiatry and neurology. In a study, students thought their new memories were more accurate than old ones. The author says he was prompted to think about whether theyte the sense that he was certain was beyond control.

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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