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Seven and a half lessons about the brain

The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast

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The Brain Is Predicting What Sensation Data Is About to Arrive

The brain is changing the firing of its own neurons to prepare for incoming sense data that it's expecting in the next moment. If i ask you to imagine a mackintosh apple, a red apple, imagine holding it in your hand and looking at it, and imagine what it feels like. Imagine taking a bite. You sink your teeth into the apple. Maybe you taste the tartness of the tart sort of sweetness of the apple. And those are the brain literally changing the firing Of Its Own Neurons. It doesn't make its way very far into the brain because the neurons are already firing in a way to capture the predicted sense data. The only time sense data actually make their

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