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Motivated Reasoning: The Opposite of A Suspension of Disbelief

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by Jonathon Rosen
In a recent post exploring Nicholas Humphrey’s new book, ’Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness‘ I argued that the thesis here with ‘A Suspension of Disbeliefs’, that we all create realities that are essentially states of suspended disbelief by our choices of religion, political persuasion, career, country, love, belief or not in the magic bullet theory, or choice of architecture’ was paralleled by Humphrey in ’Soul Dust:. Combining theories in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, he states, ”Consciousness, is nothing less than a magical-mystery show that we stage for ourselves inside our own heads – this self-made show

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