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Neuroscience of Belief and Disbelief: Content-Agnostic Processing and Identity-Bound Convictions

The brain processes acceptance and rejection of statements in a content-agnostic manner, aligning with Spinoza's hypothesis that understanding precedes acceptance. Rejection of false statements is a subsequent operation, often accompanied by a sense of disgust and slower processing times. Strongly h…