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Neuroscientist: "We Live in a Controlled Hallucination"
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We Don't See the World as It Is
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Evolution has designed the way the brain constructs experience so that we don't do things like jump out of windows or drive cars into walls. So how do we navigate reality then, knowing all of this? How does this change the way we live life? I've been fond of saying that our experience is like a controlled hallucination. It's a hallucination in the sense that it is generated by the brain, but the control is equally important. We're very bad at perceiving things that unfold over time scales that evolution hasn't deemed relevant to our ongoing survival.
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