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Seven and a half lessons about the brain

The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast

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How Do We Get Such Synchrony in Experience?

When yoe, when you're born, your brain is not finished. It's a brain that's waiting for wiring instructions from the world. There are certain statistical regularities in the sense data that come from the world and we as humans on the planet share some of those statistical regularities. Once you have a fully loaded brain, so to speak, you know your brain is developed to be able to predict. The sense data are there largely to confirm predictions or to modify them. And that means that, you know, your experience is constructed by your brain. But there's also an extreme right-to-left syncrony - i don't have to tell you what it looks like

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