How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
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The Effect of Predictive Brain Functions on Hallucinations
Once you start to think in predictive brain terms you'll find it all around you all the time, says Andy. The body is producing all kinds of signals all the time and it can latch on to some perfectly innocent signals that carry good information or not. There's also a bit in here about psychosomatic or what someone call psychosomatic pains pains that doctors will tell you aren't rooted in the biology of your body but they are real. You know when i sort of seem to just see my dead dog emerging from behind the curtain that rustles i think we might really be having a fleeting but genuine start of a visual experience that isn't actually happening like a very fleeting halluc
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