Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Big Think・2 minutes read
Our reality is constructed by our sensory experiences and brain signals, leading to the brain's challenge of inferring causes of outcomes. The brain uses past experiences to predict future events, creating categories of instances based on similarities, while also constructing 'Social reality' by collectively imposing agreed-upon meanings on objects like money or borders.
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- Our brain uses past experiences to predict future events by categorizing instances based on similarities in sensory and motor features or abstract patterns.
- Humans can collectively construct 'Social reality' by assigning agreed-upon meanings to objects like money or government actions, which are not inherent but imposed functions.
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How does the brain shape reality?
By receiving sensory signals and predicting future events.
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