Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How the Brain Operates
For the longest time, i think peopled people did looknd look at things this way. So naive vew seems to be right. And my sense is that a that that's not the way it actually works. We have all these receptors out there. We have the senses we're all equipped with and evidence data impingese itself upon us throug these various receptors. This is little step which is aligted into that information and how it's processed in our mind's eye. But if we forget about that, we are not aware of how much work the brain has done to arrive at this point. Our perception is a hallucination mildly constrained by reality.
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