Cognitive Ease and Illusions of Truth

Saloni Goyal
Be Yourself
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4 min readJan 4, 2020

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I can claim that I know what I am thinking at any given time, but I don’t really know how my brain works. How does a simulation in the environment traverses through my neurons and somehow starts a chain reaction of thoughts, emotions and actions.

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System 1 and System 2

Human brain can be thought of as comprising of two subsystems: System 1 and System 2. System…

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What matters is going out there and doing it, not thinking about it, not worrying what others might think, not even being attached to a result, just doing it.