What is Confirmation Bias? Can We Cure it?

Time to take the blinkers off

Our brains filter out information deemed not useful to our overall sense of self — our values, our judgements and our conditioned memories. How does my brain know what to conclude? My brain pays attention to my thoughts and beliefs and produces what it thinks I wish it to.

I’m not happy with the term brainwashing. I prefer brain rinsing. Laundering and bleaching away the stains of the…