"On Being Certain": Interview with Robert Burton, MD (BSP 43)
BSP 43 is an interview with Robert A Burton, MD, author of On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not. This is a follow up to BSP 42.
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Other scientists/writers mentioned in this episode:
Benjamin Libet: important experiments showing that unconscious signals precede our awareness of deciding to act.
Timothy Wilson: Strangers to Ourselves.
John Searle, philosopher: Mind: A Brief Introduction.
David Bohm, physicist:Thought as a System.
Other terms mentioned in the interview:
Cotard's Syndrome: when the patient believes they do not exist or that they are dead
Cognitive dissonance: a mismatch between what one believes and what the evidence supports
Previous Episodes of the Brain Science Podcast:
Episode 42: Part 1 of our discussion of On Being Certain.
Episode 13: Unconscious Decisions-featuring Blink, by Malcom Gladwel.l
Episode 15: Interview with Read Montague about unconscious decisions.
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