How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar
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How to Overcome False Perceptions
I was curious about whether that guy kept feeling the pain yeah oh that's right when they pulled it out. I would have expected that with almost immediate effect as soon as they saw what was actually going on they should have started to experience a great deal of relief. So you've got a nice sort of virtuous circle there just like the kind of vicious circles that you can get into when you think something's really going to hurt and uh and it does really hurt. If you change the waiting then suddenly you're either up or down the reliability of the sensory evidence in this case the sensory evidence was nailed through boot expect extreme pain but of course now you either don't take that evidence seriously or rather
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