Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
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Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
The perception is completely unrelated to the sense organs, like the nose or the eyes, and related instead to the brain itself and how it interprets the sensory input it receives.
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The brain relies on these prior expectations and experiences to predict and rationalize the new incoming information from the environment, in order to make conclusions and direct responses in the shortest time possible.
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The brain is continually making predictions about the causes of the sensory information it receives, and it uses that information to update its predictions. In other words, we live in a “controlled hallucination” that remains tied to reality by a dance of prediction and correction, but which is never identical to that reality.
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
Immanuel Kant, in the eighteenth century, said that the universe as it truly is must be unknowable, and all we ever know is the world through our senses: he made a clear distinction between phenomena , our perceptions of objects, and noumena , the things in themselves.5 More than that, he foreshadowed the Bayesian model of the brain: he argued that
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