Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Episode 103. Oh, oh, oh, oh, and you know.

Oh, and you know.

Oh, you know. Oh, oh. I'm going to play something for you and I want you to listen to it with the intention of detecting something

something unusual within the sound,

something distinct. Let me see you see it. With in all of that noise was a snippet of audio created by Matt Davis, who is a scientist at the MRC Cognition and

Brain Sciences unit at Cambridge University. He researches what's going on in your

brain when you try to understand language. Here is the snippet from his research.

It was a sunny day that it was a short time again.

Right now, that sounds like noise to you. And I want you to savor that feeling because where we are going next you can never go back.

I'll play it one more time and then we will cross the cognitive point of no return.

It was a sunny day in the short of the going to the

when it comes to the development of your brain,

there's a history, a timeline in which there is a you before you heard the next segment and a you after you hear it.

And after you hear it, you can never, ever go back. Right now your brain has no idea what to do with all of that noise. It wants to make sense of it, but it can't.

This is excruciating to the brain because other than keeping your body alive,

its greatest talent, the task it is most eager to perform, is pattern recognition.

The reason we have podcasts and popcorn spaghetti and smartphones is pattern recognition.

We landed on the moon because we are amazing at pattern recognition.

But a lot of people also think we didn't land on the moon of, almost always a crucial ingredient in self-delusion, irrational behavior, and

motivated reasoning.

Confirmation bias is central to how we fool ourselves into thinking things that just aren't true

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