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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Predictive Brain
The brain makes predictions about internal changes in the body first and then motor it starts to prepare motor action and then it makes a prediction about what you will see and hear and feel based on those actions. Your brain's ability to sample what's out there is yoked to your heartbeats so if your heart rate goes through the roof you will be less let you will be more likely to just go with your prediction because you're actually literally not seeing as well or you will see things that aren't there basically is why we need predictive brains.
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