Consider hypnosis. If we could find a way to hypnotize people from many different backgrounds into believing some specific wild assertion, regardless of how mu

Consider hypnosis. If we could find a way to hypnotize people from many different backgrounds into believing some specific wild assertion, regardless of how much that assertion conflicts with their beliefs, that would be strong evidence against the hypothesis that statistics is the ultimate language of the brain. The results would suggest that a lower-level language exists and that hypnosis somehow taps into that language. People get concerned about hypnosis precisely because they believe it may access a lower level of their brain that they can't control very well. People want to believe that their thinking is in fact rooted in statistical modeling rather than things they can't control. I tend to believe our thinking is influenced by many things, including things we aren't in control of, but when we discover elements of our thoughts that we don't control, we can slowly take control of them. For example, we can slowly overcome habits and addictions.