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Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking

Intelligence Squared

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The Importance of a Surely Alarm in Your Brain

I've been inviting people to send me now that they've installed a surely alarm in their brain. Send the examples where they catch a surely marking a weak spot. It doesn't work all the time, and a lot of false alarms. You can go ahead and use the word surely every now and then. But if you hear the word surely, you should ding. So we'll just give it a little try, because surely if you, I didn't hear it, surely if you get in the habit of whenever you hear theword surely, a little bell rings,. practice surely, ding, thank you. Now look what I've done. I've just downloaded an app to your neck

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