Your brain guesses at reality instead of recording it

Your brain isn't showing you the world so much as guessing at it. That's the argument from psychologist Daniel Yon, who runs the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. The brain, Yon writes, works "like a scientist," constantly forming hypotheses about what's out there rather than passively recording it - a habit that explains everything from mangled song lyrics to why you don't quite trust your own reflection. - Read the rest

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