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“human beings tend to blindly trust their perception, to the point of considering it to be shared by everyone.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“when information contradicts your preferences, your convictions, your beliefs or your behaviours, you feel a state of tension which breaks your homeostasis. This state was theorized by Leon Festiger,30 an American psychologist, sixty years ago. He named it cognitive dissonance.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“The human brain functions in a dimensional way, rather than a binary one. It would be less similar to a switch which only has on and off functions, than to the volume dial of a radio which can be gradually regulated.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions

“Stress is therefore an essential function for all vertebrates because it privileges survival: if you’re in danger of death, it’s useless to invest energy into digestion or libido, or in combatting a virus.”
― Albert Moukheiber, Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions