The Evolution of Conspiratorial Thinking

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I feel like we may be but maybe thanks to social media and the epistemic chaos of the last year or two or about the last four years maybe we've entered into a next era. I know that people are extremely interested in a fascinating with the idea that that maybe there's more to it than we originally thought. Almost all of modern psychology is predicated upon how you proceed, he says.

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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