How Predictive Processing Shapes Human Experience

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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.

Most of us believe that what we see is what’s really there. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption upside down. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it? That's what Andy Clark argues in today's episode.