How to Expand Your Perception

David Eagleman: We're built out of really small stuff like DNA and we're embedded in a very large cosmos. He says our brains are not particularly good at perceiving reality at either of those scales. And that's because we've evolved to deal with reality at this very thin slice in between, he says. "Even here at our level of perception, we're not seeing most of the action that's going on"

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