We are a highly-intelligent species and yet we are often not able to resolve or often even recognize the stuff going on in our own heads. Why is that?
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I’m reading the book, The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul and she explains this as well as many other things about how bodies and brains work (and how they don’t work).
Basically what she says is our brain is not a computer and it is not a muscle and it is not helping us to think of the brain this way. We learn and understand better when we do it with others because being social was advantages to us throughout time. We also have many things that our body does that give us information not just our brains. Therapist can also be a shortcut to revealing these things to ourselves.
Here is an interview with Ezra Klein- https://overcast.fm/+oiPU0IRr0
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