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204 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton

You Are Not So Smart

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Beliefs and Doubt

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. The fact that this the in in that process is some sort of information encoded in your brain in and then accompanying that is some feeling of certainty or uncertainty with it can be seen as an example of why we call them 'beliefs' It seems so intuitively obvious but unfortunately I can't believe anything else which is so I'm soI'm victim of my own belief well I can tell, he says.

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