I'd say the statements at the end were a bit stronger than was warranted, and I'd say something like, "be skeptical of explanations" or "be cautious of explanat

I'd say the statements at the end were a bit stronger than was warranted, and I'd say something like, "be skeptical of explanations" or "be cautious of explanations." I don't think they said that our brains are _like_ people with lobotomies, but that this was an illustrative example. I've definitely experienced people's stated beliefs continually disagreeing with their actions, and their producing a font of rationalizations when I asked them about it, until I was forced to conclude they were lying to me only because they'd first lied to themselves. Or confabulated, if you prefer. And I think it's important to understand that this can happen & that one's self can do it too. Which is, yanno, a meaning.