How does your mind actually build its map of reality? This chapter explores prediction, grooves, confirmation bias, and the emotional weight of being wrong—laying the groundwork for the skeptical tools ahead. No new tools yet. Just a clearer picture of the brain you're working with.

You already have an epistemology—you just haven't named it. This chapter helps you see the invisible way you've been deciding what's true your whole life, shaped by childhood, culture, and survival. Not to judge it, but to finally bring it into view.