Loading...Most of the time, truth seems to be a pretty black and white concept. The Earth is round. There are around 7.125 billion people on the Earth. Statements like that are easy enough to label as true, but as Veritasium talks about in the video above, the brain can be influenced in many ways such that truth isn’t as black and white as it may seem. Through many examples of fascinating studies and experiments, Derek Muller of Veritasium explains the concept of cognitive ease and how it affects our opinions and perception of the world around us.
Essentially, how hard our brain has to work while figuring out the meaning of something can impact what you think of that thing substantially. Cognitive ease, and other ways to fool your brain, is explored in depth in the video above, giving us a small window into how we make the choices we do, even if we don’t know why.