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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Limits of the Brain

I wonder what the limits are like if we can if we put it on Mars or if we put in virtual reality or if we sit at home during a pandemic and we spend most of our day on Twitter and TikTok. I wonder where the breaking point like the limitations of the brain's capacity to properly continue wiring itself. But nevertheless you're kind of saying that the physical reality has a has a consistent thing throughout that keeps feeding these set of sensory information that our brains are constructed for but yeah the cool thing though is that if you change the consistency if you changeThe statistical regularities so prediction error your brain can learn it It takes a while to for the brain to get really automated with

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