Nir Eyal
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They are religious but not spiritual.
So the Japanese, they absolutely will go to the Shinto shrines.
They'll go to the Buddhist temples.
They do all the rituals.
But when you actually ask them, do you really have faith in this supernatural animism?
Not really.
Not so much.
But they do the ritual.
And they gain all these psychological benefits that come from it.
So, okay, let's address those separately.
So first of all, you're already gaslighting yourself.
you're already delusional.
In fact, none of us actually see reality as it is.
How do we know this?
The brain is absorbing about 11 million bits of information per second.
So right now, listening to my voice, your brain is actually taking in 11 million bits of information.
The sound of my voice in your ears, the light entering your eyeballs, the temperature of the room.
Your brain is actually absorbing all this, 11 million bits of information.
But conscious processing...
only has the capacity for about 50 bits of information.