BS 173 Exploring the Unconscious Origins Of Certainty
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Dr. Burton suggests that we make a distinction between those thoughts that arise from the complex computations of hidden layers of neurons as an episodic memory and semantic thoughts which require the memorization of facts. He calls these perceptual thoughts because he thinks that trying to call them episodic thoughts would be cumbersome. Using the word perceptual reminds us that there can be illusions, so by using the term perceptual thoughts, Burton emphasizes that the process is going on outside our conscious awareness.
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