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This episode, we sit down with neurologist robert burton. He talks about the nero science behind aha moments. And he uses this description as an example. See if you can make sense of it. Did you feel difference? Did you feel your mind change from uncertainty to certainty? As burton put it, you feel the prior discomfort of something amiss shifting to a pleasing sense of rightness. That is what burton calls the feeling of knowing.

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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