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"The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality" by Andy Clark

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How Predictive Processing Shapes Human Experience

This chapter explores how predictive processing shapes human experience and how our perceptions are influenced by our own hidden predictions and expectations. The speaker discusses the White Christmas effect as a example of how our brain's predictions can create experiences that are not actually present.

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