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#322 — Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Importance of Attention in a Dynamic World
Attention is the process by which precision gets assigned. So attention in this case increased attention to the face here is a matter of giving a higher precision weight into the sensory input so as to overcome the illusion. And often it will also be a mixture of the two different levels of processing, different areas of the brain. The other thing to remember about precision here is it's being estimated for every neural population in every area all the time.
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