Brain Fart — Why the Mind Chooses Comfort Over Accuracy
The decisions that feel most independent may sometimes be the ones most shaped by hidden cognitive and environmental pressures.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Brain Fart. Discover Your Flawed Logic, Failures in Common Sense and Intuition, and Irrational Behavior - How to Think Less Stupid by Peter Hollins as an entry point, this episode investigates why irrational behavior is often produced by ordinary mental processes rather than exceptional foolishness.
Hollins argues that cognition repeatedly favors speed, belonging, control…
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