Spontaneous Thoughts

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Mullainathan: People mistakenly assign profound meaning to random neurological noise
“I think this is this crazy view we have of the brain is that like, we know that we belch and fart, and we don't attribute deep meaning to belches or farts. But the same belches and farts produced by the firing of our neurons are like, oh, I thought about that.…”
Sendhil Mullainathan Feb 2, 2021 ▶ 52:13 #102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Inside Us

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