Three things defy logic (Socratic reasoning)
Art, religion, and romance (love of a certain type)
[Many thought processes are] tactics of self deception: they suppress evidence that we are not as beneficent or com petent as we would like to think. 78 As Jeff Goldblum said in The Big Chill, "Rationalizations are more important than sex." When his friends demurred, he asked, "Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?" As we saw in Chapter 3, when a per son suffers neurological damage, the healthy parts of the brain engage in extraordinary confabulations to ex plain away the foibles caused by the damaged parts (which are invisible to the self because they are part of the self) and to present the whole person as a capable, rational actor.(Blank Slate)