How Our Brains Toy With Our Minds

Matthew Hutson, Washington Post: Books
Fri, 07/31/2015 - 8:16am

Humanity’s greatest conflicts emerge from two parties looking at the same thing and each insisting, with the utmost confidence, that only he or she sees it correctly. More fundamentally, each party insists that there is a correct way to see it — that the issue is a matter of fact, not opinion.

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