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.
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 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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