Humans 101

Believing Is Easy, but Being Correct Is Difficult

Our fast brains are gullible, and our slow brains can fix things up… when they get around to it

Sam Brinson
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readJun 25, 2020

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Blue reflection of person drinking from cup.
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When you encounter new information but have yet to form a belief about it, what’s your immediate response? Do you hold it up in your mental spotlight and subject it to a critical…

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Sam Brinson
Human Parts

An emergent property of billions of chaotically firing neurons. Currently thinking about thinking. http://sambrinson.com/