Why Facts Lose to Belief 🧠 | The Neuroscience of Conviction
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Why Facts Lose to Belief 🧠 | The Neuroscience of Conviction
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Why do intelligent people cling to beliefs even when facts collapse beneath them? 🧱
In this episode, we dive into cognitive neuroscience to uncover why belief isn’t just an opinion—it’s biological infrastructure.
From belief as a social technology that enabled large-scale human cooperation, to the brain’s credition circuitry and psychological immune system, we explore why conviction forms before logic ever arrives. You’ll learn how dopamine loops, belief bias, and precision-weighted prediction errors turn repetition into “truth,” and why logic so often loses the fight.
We’ll also examine how belief physically reshapes the body through placebo and active inference—and what this means in the age of AI, social media, and virtual reality.
Belief isn’t about accuracy. It’s about survival.
Understanding that may be the only way to bridge the divide between us and them.
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#BackfireEffect #PlaceboEffect #CriticalThinking #ScienceOfBelief #MindAndBrain