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#322 - Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Controlled Hallucination of Predictions

Olsethe: We mostly consciously experience our predictions and are continually revising them in concert with attending to sensory inputs. Or is it that the sensory input is really always unconsciously modifying our predictions? And that's that is, it's it has on Olsethe called a controlled hallucination, but it's the control component is always happening in the dark. That's the way I see it.

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