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What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sometimes your brain will decide something independently of conscious thought, and then invent a compelling narrative for why you are about to do what your brain already decided you were going to do

This kind of effect can be seen when a split brain person reacts to textual commands, like "stand up" seen on a computer screen in front of them only one eye can see by standing up, but when asked verbally why they stood up they just make up some shit on the fly like "I was tired of sitting and wanted to stretch my legs"

We're just narrative machines (no, not like ChatGPT)

It could be asserted that none of our decisions are ever actually real, and its all just a series of these 'decisions' that are just invented by your brain to explain why you're doing what you were always going to do, and thus you don't have free will you just tell yourself that you do as a nice story.

I don't believe that, I think that assertion is a bit like last tuesdayism and I dislike the unfalsifiablity of it, but yeah I get the argument