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Attachment Science & Psychotherapy - Professor Jeremy Holmes

The Weekend University

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The Neuroscience of the World

Joywell: We tend to think that our brain and our mind are a little bit like a camera or a sound recorder, we simply reflect what's out there. He says this is not quite how the neuroscience tells us it is. Our brains have an enormous bulk of experience which means they don't see the world afresh every time we open our eyes. Joywell: In order to not be overwhelmed, we simply match this incoming sensations with our pre-existing model of the world. So I'm looking at you, we've met several times, I just say, oh, right, that's now. And then I can attend to the new bit of our relationship,.

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