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THE BRAIN: A User’s Guide to the Blob Between Your Ears

The Next Big Idea

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What Your Brain Is Doing All the Time

Our day-to-day experiences are a carefully controlled hallucination. To us it feels as if we see stuff and we hear stuff and then we react to it. But under the hood, that is not the way your brain works. Your brain is constantly making predictions. It's constantly reassembling past experiences to predict what's going to happen next.

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