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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Have you ever asked yourself

how you know what you know? Take climate change or gay marriage or gun control. You have

opinions, but how exactly did you form them? The findings in social psychology show that

we are much more like lemmings than we are like mavericks able to do whatever they think right.

We're not very good at reasoning to weigh up all the pros and cons and decide which policy will yield the best results overall.

Mostly, we take what we believe for granted, whether it's about politics, human nature, or God.

I think sometimes the way monotheists talk about God is unreligious.

People will say, God loves that, God wills that, and God despises the other.

And very often the opinions of the deity are made to coincide exactly with those of the speaker.

Today, how to challenge your own beliefs.

Take a second to think about what you know about yourself. Maybe it's that you're the smart one

in your family, or that you're one of those highly creative right brain types.

Well, it turns out that even the most basic things we believe about ourselves are often wrong.

And the reason has to do with how the brain works.

Neuroscientist Julian Keenan studies self-awareness and deception.

He's the author of The Face in the Mirror, How We Know Who We Are. You know, this age-old question, how do you know you're you?

It's a hard question to ask.

Who's the I asking the question?

Right. That's one of the first complicated questions here. In science, we call it the Cartesian theater, the idea that there's someone inside my head looking at someone inside my head who's looking at someone inside my head. And you keep going in that circle. And immediately from that problem, we jump to a new problem, which is, once I figure that I'm me, how do I know that you're you?

Self-awareness is painful a lot of the time. I mean, you know, some people are obviously more self-conscious than others, but almost all of us have had the experience you get up, you get dressed in the morning, you look at yourself in the mirror and you think, oh, I wish I were in better shape, or you have to give a talk in front of a lot of people and you feel like you're just going to die

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