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“I was pointing an LMG at enemies who could be killed by a sneeze”

I recently learned about ‘false epiphanies’. Apparently, the euphoric sensation you feel when you solve a puzzle can be triggered whether or not you’ve actually found the correct solution, and because we associate that ‘eureka’ feeling with being right, it can fool us into believing we’ve genuinely uncovered a hidden truth. The Vice article I

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