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231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

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Beliefs and Doubt Are Processes

i got a strong impression reading your book that you were saying that beliefs aren't things stored in your brain. They're processes. It's a thing that happens in the presence of thinking about this for a second, or having to face a situation where you need a model of reality. And then accompanying that is some feeling of certainty or uncertainty with it. That feeling happens to you bodily, like hunger and like thirst. So you here's such a different way of looking at it. I mean that even like thousands of years of philosophical discourse, there's not a whole lot that matches to what you're saying there. But to me, that seems absolutely the right way to look at it.

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