Upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for them follow. The brain is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuse those patterns with meaning.
Shermer provides countless real-world examples of how this process operates, from politics, economics and religion to conspiracy theories, the supernatural and the paranormal.
