Robert Burton is a retired neurologist and author. He says people are more likely to change their mind through story or anecdote than discourse. In his retirement now he primarily writes novels, books, short stories,. And I have written a couple books on the mind.
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."
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