Why Tom loves this book
This book really challenges what you think you know, and is based on solid science and research, not on what you thought you knew or what you've been told throughout your life.
The writing style gets a bit bogged down, but I imagine it's difficult to cover this type of subject matter in an entirely original and free-flowing fashion.
1 author picked The Believing Brain as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the…
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