"The majority of our most fundamental beliefs are automatic, formed without first running through an argument of any kind," writes Stokes. "We’ve been hardwired to just believe many things, without effort and without argument. 

"Humans have innate belief-forming faculties that instantly and spontaneously produce beliefs. If we didn’t automatically believe, for example, that there’s a car right there, we wouldn’t have gotten very far. Life comes hard and fast."