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655: David Eagleman | How Our Brains Construct Reality

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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I'm Born Without a Smell, Is All That Related Data Just Missing From the Model?

Our senses are fact checking the picture that our brain has already made to make sure it's valid. If i'm born without a sense of smell, is all that related data just missing from the model? Do i know that it's missing, or it just doesn't matter? It's completely irreli a great question. It is completely missing, and you do not know that it’s missing, as we are. We've got this sort of black hole where smell should be, and we've got these little impoverished noses here. Instead, we just were totally ensconced in our view of the world. And that, as far as we're concerned, is the entirety

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