Paul Larache

And I have a chapter on the book that is related to critical thinking to say, okay, listen, we have to slow down.

We have to use what we call metacognition to say,

let's think about our thinking here are we being just led on the emotional tugs of our old brain here and um if you get pretty good at it then you can actually start noticing that yeah maybe i am just falling into this trap of wanting to to you know be in this tribe or you may be following you know you

I hate to use the word traps because at one point they really kept us alive, but I call them errors and thinkings like cognitive biases.

The old brain is very good at pattern recognition.

Again, it's that pattern recognition that saved us many times in our old day, but now

We often see patterns where they don't exist or we make them up because our old brains so much wants to believe that there's something there.

And there's a term for that.

It's called patternicity.

And again, it's finding meaningful patterns in meaningless noise.

And that happens all the time because we just feel that we see a pattern there.

And then the old brain...

when it starts talking to the new brain, if those gears are connected, this is where, and maybe some of your viewers have heard this, but it's a term called confabulation.

And it's used often by lawyers, especially during trial, because if you're putting an eyewitness on the stand, often they will say that they heard or seen things that

when they look back and are able to prove without a doubt that that didn't happen through video or whatnot, it doesn't necessarily mean that that person was intentionally lying.

It's just that the old brain, new brain connection confabulates because it wants to tuck that issue away and move on to the next thing.

So some people will believe that that actually happened.

And the other thing too, is we're very blind to abstract concepts.

So, you know, we never, we never in the Savannah thought about probability theory or statistics or scientific principles or, so those are very, very counterintuitive to, to, to the new brain.

So you, you...