You Are Not So Smart Podcast

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Nony: We're all globs of neral networks doing our best. N sanse: Ah, it seems like ye, this would be a moment for us to really be slamming into each other's ah certainties. And the result of that is going to be a lot of messy weirdness for a while. The interstitial music was by incompetenc and this music is by banjo pocalypse. Follow me on twitter at not smart or also on facebook at slash you are not so smart.

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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