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Your Brain Is Playing Tricks On You

Mentally Yours

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How Does the Brain Work?

We feel like reality is stable and coherent, whereas tones of mental operation are going on all the time to give us this illusion of continuity. And why does the brain work in he way that it does? Cause it sounds like there's a lot of it sould of filled in in the gaps for you. Is that right? Absolutely. Like this subitio uncertainty is a filling of the gaps. And we fill the gaps with our priors. Again, our priors can be our personality, but it can also be our beliefs, our political orientation, our culture,. The way we are oplace, our relations with our parents, rith our friends, et cetera.

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