| Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert "There is some evidence that the differences between the left and right hemispheres of our brains are involved in this process. The right hemisphere feeds information into the left, and it is the left that has to form beliefs and deal with cognitive dissonance. We may only change our mind when the information from the right overwhelms the beliefs held by the left brain. We nevertheless have the capacity for self-deception, which includes the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs at the same time." (page 86) "Memory thus plays a key role in determining the action of the mind, since it provides prior knowledge." (page 94) |