The Believing Brain: Know This!

Our brains mechanically, unthinkingly form patterns of what to do and feel - and then we begin to believe these as "truth" or as "an invisible force", whereas they are actually just patterns of neurons. 

In his book, The Believing Brain, Michael Shermer describes in-depth "patternicity" and how we foolishly believe in something we made up or which happened at random.  And then we also, as humans, create "agenticity", as if there was a person inside us directing us in some mysterious way, or a god, or a universe that actually has intentions (and whose favor we seek so it'll be nice to us).

Knowing how this is all created, and why, is essential to the next step of looking and seeing what to embrace and what to discard so that we can live a much happier life - and stop the ongoing cycles of foolishness that we engage in at great harm to ourselve.

Read this 15 page discussion on The Site:  The Believing Brain: Patternicity, False Agency, And Creating A New Life.   Perhaps from reading this discussion (and/or the book), you can nail down the absurdity of continuing to believe in what is created nonsensically and in the false agency (or power) you give it, as if it really exists! 

My best wishes for you finally conquering this and laying it to rest, so you can have a greater, happier life.

Keith