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Are These Outdated Brain Myths Limiting Your Potential? with Lisa Feldman Barrett

Making Positive Psychology Work

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How Does Your Brain Solve This Inverse Problem?

Your brain doesn't actually have access to what's happened in the world. It only has access to the outcome. Your brain receives sense data from your body all the time, throughout your entire life. So how does it solve this problem thati philosophers call an inverse problem? And the answer is, it uses past experience and a crude knowledge. There are some very clever visual illusions and auditory illusions that we can show to unpack this.

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