The first is that what we may think of…

The first is that what we may think of as the old, instinctual brain can easily override the new, supposedly logical brain. Anything related to survival, such as perceived danger, usually causes the old brain to kick in, which is why as soon as I felt the pushback on the door, all my probabilistic training and logical thinking vanished, and the old brain took control.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Practical Uncertainty: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Risk, Randomness, and AI by Hossei

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People will believe astonishing untruths to keep an old story intact — there are those who remember a parent's cruelty and have quietly relabeled it as love, because the alternative was unbearable. And underneath it all sits the oldest engine: your unconscious is faster and more powerful than your conscious mind, and the ancient, instinctive part of the brain can override the reasoning part before you have noticed it moved. [Name here a belief about yourself, or about the world, that you held for years and were utterly certain of — and that turned out to be flatly untrue.] — The Mind in the Cockpit

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