What if your confidence in your political beliefs doesn't have that much to do with whether they're true?

When you're watching a pundit, why does outrage often feel so convincing and nuance seem so unsatisfying?

Are conspiracy theories a predictable feature of human brains?

And is there any way for us to stop ourselves from mistaking our feelings for conclusions?

How can we become clearer thinkers?

Today we're going to speak with political commentator and proponent of clear

thinking, Kaizen Asiadu, about how we arrive at our hot takes on the political world.

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and an author at Stanford,

and in these episodes,

we sailed deeply into our three-pound universe to understand how we see the world and how we all

see different worlds inside different heads.

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Every moment of your life, your brain is running its one main job.

It's collecting up tons of scraps of sensory data,

things like sounds and images and words and social cues. And it's using these to build a model of the world. This is what you'll often hear me refer to as the internal model. Your brain is locked in total darkness

in the silence of your skull, and it's trying to figure out what is going on out there. As it gets

better and better at building this internal model, then it can make better predictions, and it can do

all sorts of other things like fill in gaps and smooth over uncertainty

and make inferences about things even when they're quite ambiguous.

Now, here's the really important part for today's conversation.

Your brain does not build a perfect model of the world. First of all, it can't.

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