The human brain functions as a prediction-making machine that favors confirmation bias unless trained as a scientist.

“which you know uh umbrella is everything we're talking about which is the human brain is a prediction making machine and it wants to make predictions on the basis of things that feel reliable and the ability for us to well confirmation bias the ability for us to link a and t as opposed to a b c and work through things linearly and try and disprove our own hypothesis is much stronger than any um desire to work through things systematically unless you're trained as a scientist”