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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Real World in Your Brain?
The structure of the information in the world what we call statistical regularities insights and sounds wires your brain. An infant brain is not a miniature adult brain it's a brain that is waiting for wiring instructions from the world. A newborn can't see very well because the visual system in that baby's brain is not complete. The physical world the sense data from the physical world wires your brain so that you have an internal model of that world to keep you alive, well and allow you to thrive. You're constantly rewriting the story of your past oh boy yeah that's one poetic and also just awe-inspiringwhat about the other thing you talk about you've mentioned about sensory perception as a thing
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