Michael Shermer

The Believing Brain

by Michael Shermer

Hardcover

Using a host of real-world examples, Shermer shows how many of our beliefs are shaped by “belief-dependent realism”—an unscientific process in which our brains discern patterns and reinforce them as truths. HC. 400pp. 2011.

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