David McGranny: We're all globs of neural networks doing our best but that's so and I'm very happy we've made it this far the fact that we would be thrown into each other's pockets so suddenly. The result of that is going to be a lot of messy weirdness for a while, he says. Check back at about two weeks for a fresh new episode. If you'd like to support this one person operation go to patreon.com slash you are not so smart pitching in at any amount gets you the show ad free the higher amounts get you posters t-shirts sign books and other stuff.
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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