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.
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 that 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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