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#247 — Constructing Minds

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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How Does Your Brain Know When You Feel a Tight Knock?

When a brain remembers, it doesn't store memories and then call them up like files in a file drawer. It reassembles the past in the present for the purposes of making sense of data. Your brain only knows the world by virtue of the sense data that it gets from the sensory surfaces of your body. Every feature that your brain computes is computing in relation to your body in a particular moment and time,. relative to or related to the particular shape of your ear. The idea that there are universal facts that can be objectively adjudicated by being rational has never been proved.

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