![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We perceive them by going beyond the information given to us, making meaning from them using knowledge from past experience, that is, concepts.”Īnd so, our brains are constantly guessing about what’s around us and creating a navigable, experience-able “reality” of conceptual shortcuts, educated guesses, to optimize our survival chances. It’s an interesting point-“Changes in air pressure and wavelengths of light exist in the world, but to us, they are sounds and colors. Her point is that these brains of ours create the reality we see, and then move us through it accordingly. Instead, she posits, of entering the world with an instruction manual or user’s guide already in place, our brains are gloriously complex prediction engines-highly attuned to (and also influenced by) our bodily systems, which require constant regulation, and able to make increasingly well-informed guesses about what we need to survive and thrive in the world around us. In How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, author Lisa Feldman Barrett cheerfully, brutally overthrows hundreds of years of false assumptions related to our understanding of the human brain, the notion of self and the study of human emotion, doing away with the idea that brains are pre-loaded with shared concepts and ideals (emotion, truth, language, etc.). A subversive triumph masked by wonky charm ![]()
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