Season 2 Episode 2- Your Brain’s Predictions and Paradigms
Jun 15, 2020
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Explore how the brain creates predictive models based on past experiences, shaping perceptions and interactions. Engage in a mindful walking exercise with modifications for enhanced focus. Embrace unfamiliar experiences to evolve the brain and foster cognitive flexibility. Navigate the world using systems thinking to improve relationships and increase brain flexibility for innovative thinking.
The brain functions as a predictive system based on past experiences to efficiently avoid dangers and seek rewards.
Childhood experiences shape predictive models that influence how individuals perceive and react to current stimuli, impacting relationships and biases.
Deep dives
The Brain as a Predictive System
The brain is discussed as a predictive system that relies on past experiences to make assumptions and generalizations. By filtering interactions through predictive models from the past, the brain's main function of predicting leads to efficiency in resource usage and growth for the mind-brain-body system. This predictive ability helps in avoiding dangers and seeking rewards efficiently, showcasing the brain's automatic behaviors and model-building process.
Influence of Past Experiences on Perception
Past experiences significantly impact how individuals perceive and interact with the present environment. The brain's early predictive models, shaped by interactions with caregivers, influence how individuals predict behaviors and react to stimuli. Associations from childhood experiences can lead to overgeneralizations and biases in how people interpret facial expressions, tones, and other cues in their current relationships and interactions.
Enhancing Cognitive Flexibility and Perception
To increase cognitive flexibility and improve relationships, individuals can engage in motor movement adjustments and experience unfamiliar stimuli. Slowing down movements, altering head and eye gaze, and encountering novel situations stimulate the mind-brain-body system to process live data more effectively. Adapting robotic movements and engaging with unfamiliar experiences allow for the evolution of neural circuitry, fostering complexity, innovation, and improved relationship dynamics.
One of the most complex adaptive systems we know of is the brain*. When we are trying to understand a complex system, one of the most important things for us to think about is its function. ...