Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain’s interpretation of these signals. This interpretation is influenced by past experiences and is often predictive, with the brain creating categories of similar instances to anticipate future events.
The brain’s categorization process extends beyond physical characteristics to include abstract, functional features. This ability allows humans to create “social reality,” where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don’t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship.
The brain’s capacity for imagination, drawing from past experiences to create something entirely new, is a double-edged sword. While it allows for creativity and innovation, it can also lead to difficulties in staying present.
0:00 The debate over reality
0:57 Objective reality
3:54 Social reality
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About Lisa Feldman Barrett:
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top 1% most-cited scientists in the world, having published over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Dr. Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. She is the recipient of a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research, a Guggenheim Fellowship in neuroscience, the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and from the Society for Affect Science (SAS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and a number of other honorific societies. She is the author of How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, and more recently, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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@nikhilpatki3658 10 месяцев назад

We don’t perceive reality the way it is, we perceive reality the way we are….

@lillysnet9345 10 месяцев назад

... unless someone else finds the way to projects on your screen...

@KamaleshwarMorjal 10 месяцев назад

@@lillysnet9345only if you let them

@ExistenceUniversity 10 месяцев назад

So the way it is then

@lillysnet9345 10 месяцев назад

@@KamaleshwarMorjal How to stop them...

@lemmingdot 10 месяцев назад

There is an objective reality, there's no doubt about it. The individual realities are the emotinal realities.

@militantpacifist4087 10 месяцев назад

“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality”- Tim Burton

@timmy18135 10 месяцев назад

That explains a lot about Tim Burton

@DrGreerIsRight 10 месяцев назад

Ah, yes, this floor is made of floor.

@AserCentral 2 месяца назад

Useless quote

@user-px7we7ue6h 20 дней назад

Okay? think deeply about that quote and you'll see has absolutely nothing to do with this💀

@gvsmani4810 12 дней назад

This is sooo true,what is my reality have seriously been other people thinking it's crazy, ridiculously shocking things have happened with me from childhood 💀💀till now 💀-

@CoorgVibesKA12 9 месяцев назад

It really did hit very hard when she said at 06:07 , "Sometimes we have a lot of trouble staying in the present "

@LuixDirtyBit 12 дней назад

And spirituality comes to the rescue

@charleswest6372 15 часов назад

How true

@DrewJmsn 10 месяцев назад

Imagine how different the world would be if everyone had this understanding and lived by it.

@PherPhur 10 месяцев назад

Clickbait title, we both create and detect reality, we interpret it. If you completely create your "reality" you're a full blown scitzo, if you only detect reality you're a literal sensor, a piece of hardware that's sole function is to take in external input and do nothing with it.

@lotuseater7247 9 месяцев назад

@@brantpowell5483 Exactly. The enlightenment has not rid the world of Religion or faith, nor has it retained its position of power where the human is central.

@syzygy4365 9 месяцев назад

Saddly life gets hard for some, and changes the perception that they see. Environments change what people see, brain chemistry changes what we see, the one thing that stands time are the skills that aren't effected by our senses.

@shakirnaaimy6526 8 месяцев назад

that world would be a world of chaos and destruction.

@aliceinwonderland887 8 месяцев назад

Opposites chase and follow one another in a perpetual dance.

@avidodd26 10 месяцев назад

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" -Philip K. Dick

@newagain9964 10 месяцев назад

Kind of. You or I can stop believing in the electoral system, yet it still persists. But it’s not real. Impositions only matter when backed by force. But it don’t make them real

@Blake4625kHz 10 месяцев назад

💥

@TeddehSpaghetti 10 месяцев назад

"The theory changes the reality it describes." -From his novel _Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said_

@Blake4625kHz 10 месяцев назад

@@TeddehSpaghetti 💩

@newagain9964 10 месяцев назад

@@TeddehSpaghetti Philip K Dick.

@chej9 10 месяцев назад

I've always seen a difference between existance and reality, as in we all share the same existance but we live in different realities. This was especially clear to me because im colourblind, so it always struck me that the same eyes exist, same receptors exist, same photons exist, same object where the light bounces off exist, and still the colour i see isn't the real colour.

@TorMax9 10 месяцев назад

Strictly, there is no "real colour". Electromagnetic waves of a certain wavelength hit the retina and are passed along to the brain, which creates the experienced colour. If I alternatively open and close my right and left eye, I see slightly different shades of colour for the same object.

@chej9 10 месяцев назад

@@TorMax9 Thats what i mean! Colour doesn't exist, but it is very real.

@TorMax9 10 месяцев назад

@@chej9 - Yes, colour doesn't exist without the eye - and the brain - of the beholder but the experience is very real and vivid and stimulating. Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" can be turned into "It stimulates, therefore it is". This can be extended to religious and aesthetic and intellectual experiences. Then, when the eye and the brain and consciousness are turned onto themselves, we run into conundrums, either an infinite regress or end at "no-mind" à la Zen, etc. In the end, its all awe and wonder. Enjoy to the maximum so long it lasts. Cheers!

@yudoball 10 месяцев назад

Good point

@Jasondurgen 10 месяцев назад

@@TorMax9I am not sure if I understand what you mean when you mention the conundrums and specify “no-mind” + infinite regress and reference Zen. It is to my understanding a lot of those eastern philosophies and religions try to ground you more in the moment to live second by second along with your brain rather than have your mind be jumbled with thoughts and predictions/ideas that are often against what I can say (with probably 90% certainty at least) is that peace and mental clarity we all want. Which, I can see it having its problems if you take it to the extreme, as there are always outliers.

@PositiveEnergy733 10 месяцев назад

Hello! yes you reading this. I've been waiting for you. I am happy you are here now. You are on the right path. What you seek will come to you.

@whiteafrican5895 2 месяца назад

I'm high too😊

@meel.369 24 дня назад

i fucking knw it!! thank you darlyynngg

@amandaniza 23 дня назад

🩷🌟🌸

@richardosborne2067 12 дней назад

Bwahahaha

@kevphillips02 9 дней назад

🤢🤮

@lolhcd 9 месяцев назад

languages are also one of many tools we use to "map out" reality in our brains. Time for example is so abstract and some languages construct them into a linear, horizontal and usually from left-to-right phenomenon. Some languages, like Chinese, even have an additional "perception" or description of time, describing it on a linear, VERTICAL and top-to-bottom phenomenon. "before" and "after" are spatio-temporal words we use in English (and other languages like German) to describe time on a more or less horizontal line. Chinese does this too but also says "Monday is above Tuesday", connotating it as being "earlier". That doesn't mean that some languages set your way of thinking in stone, you can always learn another language and adapt to different ways of perceiving the world. After all, we all have brains that are equally capable.

@watcheronly71 Месяц назад

Arrival film tackle this theme saying that aliens language are like time which is in circular form never ending

@frodoBagginsfromIndia Месяц назад

Ya it's called sappor whorf hypothesis but it's not a theory as of yet.

@lolhcd Месяц назад

@@frodoBagginsfromIndia the theory has been debunked pretty fast by linguist academia. The sapir-whorfian theory did not get far as they suggested that there is an "inherent" limit to those communities that had "limited" linguistic features that narrows down their way of speaking and ultimately perceiving the world. But it can be shown that polyglots and even just by learning another language, you can adopt another mental approach of abstract things. If you think about it, many Afro-Americans don't even know where they came from and also adpoted children from elsewhere, they are all just fine. The human brain is (for the most part" equally capable. Language is a tool that can be learned by any human, how smart that human is however, is an individual thing not tied to their whole ethnicity or community.

@asteria_create 10 месяцев назад

The most interesting & scary thing is our brains are actually watching this, and thinking: wow this is how I work...Amazing!😆

@DoloresLehmann 10 месяцев назад

@@elinope4745 The problem is not that we sometimes don't perceive the outside world correctly. It's that we never do. It's not that we are sometimes trapped in an illusion. It's that we always are. That doesn't have to lead to solipsism, though. The fact that we can't access objective reality doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

@GameFuMaster 10 месяцев назад

@@DoloresLehmann the fact is that we might be missing some experiences that others have or that no humans can have. I.e. seeing ultraviolet light or Magnetoreception that birds do

@NormanFinkelstein9863 10 месяцев назад

the content left out the notion that the imagination is led to create the idea of SELF. "I" do this, "I" am watching that.. without understanding that the active 'software' is scripted by responses to psychological/social environments .. Perhaps that's why we personalize objects and 'our' experiences with 'my'/'mine' - including our thoughts, and it hurts 'our' imagined egos when 'my opinions' are contradicted.

@DoloresLehmann 10 месяцев назад

@@GameFuMaster Yes, that too, but we shouldn't forget that species who have that kind of reception ALSO don't have an access to objective reality. Like, who sees this flower correctly? Me, who sees it as white, or the bee that sees it as purple? Neither. Both are subjective perceptions. In objective reality, there are no colours. Does that mean that colourblind people or species have the correct perception? No, because their experience of the world is also only composed of subjective impressions. And so on.

@DoloresLehmann 10 месяцев назад

@@NormanFinkelstein9863 Great point. The fundamental problem is that objective reality maybe (I mean, how could I ever know) has no boundaries, no limitations at all. But such a reality doesn't allow for experiences. So life has developped artificial separations between different "things" and different "beings". Everything we experience is an illusion, including ourselves, but the experiences we're allowed to make on this illusionary basis are real in the sense that they allow the universal consciousness to increase. That's also the reason why so many spiritual traditions emphasize the necessity of letting go of your ego: You have to unmask it for the illusion that it is. "We" don't exist as separate egos, we are just one more iteration of universal consciousness, ultimately tied to all the other "consciousnesses" that exist, like waves in the ocean. A wave might emerge for a little moment and seem to be an individual "thing", but it's nothing more than the ocean itself momentarilly acquiring this shape at a certain spot.

@forthehomies7043 10 месяцев назад

One of my favorite examples for thinking about the way we view reality is color. Outside of our brain and eyes, color doesn't actually exist. It's only through our eyes and brain that we understand and perceive color. Color only exists when there is a being that has a way to perceive the interaction between photons and the molecular structure of objects -- which is what we see as color; over time life evolved to have eyes and they are an incredible tool (or were created by a creator).

@hesamhm9383 10 месяцев назад

Of course it was designed. Even if evolution is completely true ( it has some bugs) it is the language that life was programmed. Like a seed that turns into a tree. And of course it is my view on universe.

@chrisysk91 10 месяцев назад

Interesting because no matter how the entity in our world exists, it could take doff forms and shapes depending on how other creature sensories work. Existence is not in a stop motion, it is constantly ever changing and at the same time, it never is.

@hesamhm9383 10 месяцев назад

@chrisysk91 and more instresting is none of those creatures are fully aware or conscious of everything. It is not imaginable how big and instresting is the full reality.

@pslanez 10 месяцев назад

You could take this further and say that nothing actually exists and everything is just one ever changing thing being perceived by a finite POV, which your own mind and body in the present moment is at the centre of.

@hesamhm9383 10 месяцев назад

@pslanez hi. But your saying has paradoxes. If everything doesn't exist so where are these informations that is received are coming? From nothing? Then you say your body and your mind. These two exist for sure right?

@auzziebridger 2 месяца назад

Stoners been having these thoughts for decades

@madi8181 2 месяца назад

*centuries

@edgarmorales4476 Месяц назад

Our consciousness is the fabric out of which we make your life. Our consciousness is the ground of our every response to every single thing which happens in our mental, emotional and physical life. Our consciousness is reality. This statement may be expressed in 2 ways, both of which are the truth of existence. Our consciousness creates reality, irrespective of actual facts. When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship will fall over the edge. People who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief. When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic and a blasphemer but his perception of the "roundness of the earth" enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible. We are in a similar position. People who discount and ridicule others are like people who believe in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons are severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted. Day after day, people lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them. But people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans can be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, as long as they have the will to set out on such a journey. Therefore, our state of consciousness is the most important consideration in our life-not our relationships or possessions or our position in life. Tend to your consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of your life will follow. By our consciousness we feed ourselves with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum. With such consciousness, we will find ourselves being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with our Godness. So do we climb out of unpleasant circumstances. From the foregoing, you should now be able to see that only we create the "quality" of our internal world, whether we find ourselves externally in prison or in command of a battleship! And we can enhance our surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates our thinking. Our external life only impinges on our consciousness. It does not-cannot-create or determine our conscious responses. We are the "creator" of our responses. Our type of creation depends entirely on our deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence. Our convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if we fully believe in them in our subconscious, they become absolutely real for us.

@brookemiller3113 19 дней назад

Hahaha... I feel no, they really haven't. Majority are indoctrinated into a system they dislike, and smoke as a band aid blanket & feeling avoidance tool . Not sure it offers real inner freedom for most these days due to the beliefs and opinions of the plant. But not all...... I think maybe you have a field of psychic connection to energy fields that help us shape new realities and create new inventions etc ❤💫🥰

@LittleSoulCine 19 дней назад

😂😂😂

@RichardCookerly 17 дней назад

@@madi8181 *millennia

@familyfreedomfinancial-byronce 3 месяца назад

Absolutely fascinating! Lisa Feldman Barrett's explanation of how our brains construct reality is both enlightening and thought-provoking. The idea that our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth, but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain's interpretation of these signals, is a profound insight. It's intriguing to think about how our past experiences and the brain's predictive capabilities influence our perception. Also, the concept of 'social reality' where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don’t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship, is a powerful reminder of the role our collective consciousness plays in shaping our world. This video has definitely given me a lot to ponder on. Looking forward to more content like this!

@trukoppa 10 месяцев назад

In our pursuit of understanding reality, it is imperative that we do not overlook the subjective element inherent within each individual. We should not solely rely on external perspectives or objective measurements to define reality. Instead, we must explore the inner landscape of the psyche, both on an individual and collective level. We should look into these intricate realms of consciousness. These uncharted expanses offer a treasure trove of insights and experiences, transcending the limitations of our everyday reality.

@Vgallo 10 месяцев назад

Yep and quantum physics is actually proving this with the double slit experiment and debating whether reality is local or not. Problem is, the rest of the scientific community is still stuck in a very rigid & objective reality, particularly gps & specialists.

@scambammer6102 10 месяцев назад

@@Vgallo quantum physics is objective, we just don't understand it completely

@PayMe888 10 месяцев назад

The brain itself is an illusion. If you were to stop observing a brain 🧠, the electrons or elementary particles that make up the brain would go back into its original wave state of chance, probability, or possibility.

@ferretbacon 10 месяцев назад

@@scambammer6102 Quantum physics is inherently non-objective, is the thing. It's probabilistic.

@scambammer6102 10 месяцев назад

@@ferretbacon Well that's wrong. QP (so far) says that two observers can view different realities. That =/= "inherently non-objective". It just means our perception is flawed.

@shaunhayward 10 месяцев назад

This is so interesting. I've wondered about these kinds of things but in 6 minutes you managed to spell it out so clearly. Thank you!

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 10 месяцев назад

Oh good so if a person hits lisa with a base ball bat then its her fault she cause it!

@tswift48 10 месяцев назад

You may want to watch some really good videos about the brain, watch Dr Donal Hoffman "Nothing you see is real",

@jan_phd 10 месяцев назад

Don't ever believe a Marxist Feminist, especially their teachers/professors... or you will, regret it!

@meltingintoair7581 10 месяцев назад

Its completely false to say your brain creates reality. Reality is either objective or subjective and so its obviously objective. So our brain is subjectively perceiving an objective reality. This statement contains more meaning than the whole video.

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 10 месяцев назад

@@tswift48 Want to prove that with my baseball bat? Or rather ill prove the opposite of that silly claim with a baseball bat! Its up to you ! lets do science and see! RUN AWAY FROM FACTS HERE!

@hermitthefrog8951 10 месяцев назад

This video perfectly explains why mind-controll / social-engineering is so effective and how difficult it is to defend against it (especially in today's highly message-controlled technocratic world). The movie Blade Runner explored this with the question "Are your thoughts and memories really your own?". As it turns out, thie answer is not straightforward. Question everything you're told because chances are you are being manipulated, often against your better interests.

@adamnascent7231 10 месяцев назад

This is basically a summary of her book How Emotions Are Made. Love it!

@JaysonT1 10 месяцев назад

Gasp! She wrote a book?! Shocker

@adamnascent7231 10 месяцев назад

@@JaysonT1 Wait until you find out she's written more than one...

@flamingaish 10 месяцев назад

is this her most recent one?

@LilXancheX 10 месяцев назад

@@adamnascent7231aha so?…

@tanjamanglory 10 месяцев назад

oh! then i created this video! awesome! your welcome!!

@Anonymous-uf6xo Месяц назад

No the way u experienced thsi bdue and made sense it's the result not everyone has same experience and understanding of this vide as uaew having may be in that way it's different or u create ur own relaity

@girlwithlion 6 дней назад

her examples being “because we all agree” was the most powerful part of this video for me. “because we all agree…” if only we could carry that into every aspect of being alive together…

@flyinghead1147 4 месяца назад

In Hinduism this is called 'Maya'.

@IshiKushwaha Месяц назад

Right!

@IshiKushwaha Месяц назад

Maya- The Matrix

@JustWojtek 10 месяцев назад

Imagination is a way of stretching our reality. Dipping our conceptual toes into the uncharted waters of ideas. Some find a vast ocean of knowledge, others fall into the endless pit of fantasies.

@shellisonwullian6217 10 месяцев назад

The hardest part is knowing how to differ this subtle characteristic

@0ptimal 10 месяцев назад

I had the thought that dreams may be a sort of microcosm of our true nature. How ultimately we use our imagination to materialize reality, but irl we confine ourselves by what we "see" as possible, and that very often limits us more than it should. We do not even perceive many possibilities because we automatically assume we see everything optimally. But when we dream we are materializing experiences from a different perspective, one with few to no boundaries where more is possible. I mean just knowing that more possibility exists than you're aware of opens you up to seeing it, like dreams are saying open up open up

@itsROMPERS... 10 месяцев назад

But thinking about the "uncharted waters of ideas" presupposes that ideas already exist and the brain just take into then, as opposed to actually creating ideas internally, which is physically what happens. Unless you're just thinking about the ideas that have already been created.

@JustWojtek 10 месяцев назад

@@itsROMPERS... that's misunderstanding metaphors on purpose. If you go by that logic, we also can't dip our toes into ourselves. But we can think about our own thoughts, so metacognitivly speaking, sky is the recursive limit.

@itsROMPERS... 10 месяцев назад

@@JustWojtek that what you're going with, "dip our toes into ourselves"?

@nodozhit 10 месяцев назад

Well said. I would like to expound upon the talking points by mentioning the consensus of our collective consciousness and how we decide to classify and chronicle the objective things that we have become aware of. Having an agreed upon consensus, which identifies objects, enables us to name objects and make things real both inside our minds and within our observable surroundings.

@rickhenderson8002 10 дней назад

This is what I've been telling people for years is that we create our own reality.

@ribeirovictor.c 29 дней назад

I realized, not long ago, that I was living almost my whole life focused into abstractions of reality I had about everything. I simply think too much. What made me understand was a series of experiences that faced those abstractions, like moving into a historical city and recreating events based by books and movies, or meet and work with talented and famous person and just realized: man they are just like me... sounds really dumb but in my mind, everything was bigger, polished, organized, more logical, more interpretable etc.

@friedrichjunzt 10 месяцев назад

"Your hear a loud bang - it could be a gunshot" this is soo American! 😂 Here in Europe, a gunshot is the absolutely last thing we think of when we here a loud bang.

@jeremiahnoar7504 10 месяцев назад

That's because Europian governments have a history of taking guns away from their citizens

@heliusfacenna4109 10 месяцев назад

Speak for yourself!

@ReasonAboveEverything 10 месяцев назад

Unless you live in London or southern Sweden Lamo.

@pronounshismajesty3542 10 месяцев назад

@@ReasonAboveEverythingor Paris

@alvarosannar3213 5 дней назад

There in Europe are close minded 😅

@ericthorpe5670 10 месяцев назад

This was really great! She was fascinating to listen to, and she broke things down really well.

@adamwoodhall508 10 месяцев назад

Brilliant video! Thanks to all who contributed to creating it!!

@REMY.C. 10 месяцев назад

I think there's: 1- the reality of everything around us, physics, planets, dimensions?... All those. 2- the small part of reality n⁰1 that we can perceive AND THAT IS ALWAYS EVOLVING, we perceive it with our senses + the tools we create to discover more, microscope, mathematics, telescope, sensors... This reality we know of isn't the same we knew of 500 years ago. 3- the reality we construct like she said, social reality for example.

@holybigbang 10 месяцев назад

wrong, reality is a hoax, much like a dream. we are only fooling ourselves

10 месяцев назад

And then there's the fact that all these different realities are in that sense real. I'd say the ultimate reality cannot fully be grasped by the mind - because it would be an infinite loop of unzooming out of space to understand the vastness and sheer size of this thing as opossed to humanity's egocentrical vantage point - but we can get a feel for it through the expansion of consciousness by gaining knowledge and experience, keeping our minds sincerely opened and being in touch with our emotions.

@rocklandstone5475 10 месяцев назад

@We, and the universe we know and love, could be microscopic to something bigger.

@rocklandstone5475 10 месяцев назад

@Our universe could be the equivalent of an atom for a world, if you could call it that, that's just unfathomably huge. That's where dimensions break down. At the atomic level. Like, if we were to study the inside of an atom, using microscopic tools, would we look like UFOs defying all physics to observers inside an atom?

@rocklandstone5475 10 месяцев назад

@None of this matters cuz its likely not true. But just some things to think about, i suppose.

@sihr07 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful explanation. So important to question everything, and first and foremost ourselves

@iforgotmyname1885 10 месяцев назад

FINALLY! I've had this intrusive thought lately that our reality is determined by the quality of our sensory organs and nervous system, other than that we are just brains (wrapped around a soul I guess) but what does the world really look like past our perception?

@IainWright-po2qy 4 месяца назад

Possibly the best description I have seen. Well done!

@edwardskerl5774 10 месяцев назад

If I can control how and what I perceive, then I am the god of my own world.

@-handala- 10 месяцев назад

more true when you can control the emotional lens.

@skipsterr91 10 месяцев назад

Your obsessed with the word god buddy.

@ehrenloudermilk1053 10 месяцев назад

Maybe. But, how many ways are there to interpret fundamental things. Things happen or not. You have no control over that.

@logancade342 10 месяцев назад

Solipsism is a dead end.

@pedropierre9594 10 месяцев назад

Go control how you take a beating from a Grizzly bear, lets see how godly you can be 😂

@shehrosemian 10 месяцев назад

All-around excellent. Thanks, Dr. Barrett!

@2000sborton 10 месяцев назад

I am a visual artist that has been exploring human perception for decades. It started with exploring visual perception and expanded from there. I agree with what Dr. Barrett says completely. We indeed as individuals create our perception of reality. Our sensory organs are unique to each of us. Just as our fingerprints are. Therefore the information that our brain receives is also unique to the individual. From that information we create a picture or model of the world around us, (aka reality). But, that model is ALWAYS inaccurate. What a lot of people don't understand is the subtle difference of our brains and sensory organs evolving their features to assist us in surviving, rather than evolving to perceive reality. A great example of this is colour. We perceive the world as having a great variety of colours. Although this allows us to make many quick judgement calls on what is happening around us and react to that, it is not reality that we are experiencing. There is actually no such thing as colour in the world of reality. What there is, is different "textures" to objects. When a photon bounces off of these "textures" it's wavelength is changed. What our eyes perceive is differences in the wavelengths of photons to an incredible level of accuracy. The rest of our visual system then "translates" the information about wavelengths into what we perceive as colour. This is then added to the visual image that we tend to think of as reality. With our illusional visual image we can instantaneously make decisions about our external world and if necessary make rapid adjustments to our actions. If we perceived colour as it really was, everything may just look the same with a shimmer of differences occurring. While we are still trying to figure out the meaning of the vague shimmer, the approaching tiger eats us. This is just one example of how evolution has modeled our senses and perceptions in favour of survival over reality. Considering what a large and complex mammal humans are this is but one of the many instances that evolution has molded us during our 3.5 billion year path to where we as individuals are now. A lot of people accept that the hominids split from the apes about ten million years ago. But to accurately understand the intricate details of who we are, we must consider our entire 3.5 billion year evolutionary journey. Our original adaptations to perceive the external world are just as important, if not more so than our more recent ones. And never forget, the adaptations that gave us a survival benefit always trump the adaptations that allow us to perceive reality. Always.

@alexandrabujak94 8 месяцев назад

That was such a great video, thank you. Really resonated. Much love Lisa xxx

@tilak231 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting! Thank you for this aspect to open for ourselves!

@philsophkenny 10 месяцев назад

Is there a longer version of this like that recent video on the nature of Psychopaths? I would love to see it.

@cavavision5547 4 месяца назад

It's called interpretation, and it influence every aspect of what we relate to being alive, except for arc reflex.

@sk8razer 8 месяцев назад

My 7yo stepson and I were just talking about how life experience is the reason why I usually know the cause of a sound that's foreign & freighting to him (like the sound of a distant train's movement in the still quiet of the night) and how he's been creating his own mental catalogue of sounds for years. It's not that I'm inherently *better* at figuring out what things are, my catalogues are just more developed as a result of being 28 years older than he is.

@yanassi 10 месяцев назад

We all define reality as each of us perceive it, reality exists as it exist. We have no control over reality, as we communicate with others who are also defining reality, we come to a consensus of what reality is.

@ThriftyCHNR 10 месяцев назад

Some are closer than others. Whoever perceives reality that is closer to the material reality wields the most power.

@ImHeadshotSniper 10 месяцев назад

i agree completely, which means i completely disagree with this lady in the video. she is speaking of hypothetical theories, of which there is not a single piece of evidence to support the validity of. you can see how it excites those with other faithful beliefs like religion, or "matrix" believers, with notably unscientific paths of logic

@truthseeker7815 6 месяцев назад

@@ThriftyCHNR, there is nothing closer than the understanding of our inability to perceive reality the way it is

@truthseeker7815 6 месяцев назад

@@ImHeadshotSniper, it's the most accurate worldview according to science lmao

@ImHeadshotSniper 5 месяцев назад

@@truthseeker7815 no it isn't. for one, nothing in any quantum theories suggests that we create the world we see. it moreso suggests that the universe exists, and we have varying types of eyes and ears etc. to collect this information. secondly, my main point was that no quantum effects have ever yet been observed, therefore no conclusions can be made. everything quantum currently is all theoretical mathy guesswork, so i'd wait until they make some more definitive conclusions before you go parroting the "everyones own reality is a quantum fabrication" twist of the theory. to put the theory shortly: it's just a theoretical explanation of the most fundamental physical happenings in the universe. (smaller than atoms, electrons, etc.) we see atoms, but assume that there are more smaller components which even the electrons etc. are composed of, i.e., "quantum particles". since we haven't seen them or even know how they might behave, we can't even make 1 conclusion out of it, and especially not some kind of fabricated mental reality theory, as there are other alternative explanations. it could be the case (and i believe it very likely is), that the universe exists by itself, and the various ways in which we differently perceive it are merely illusions of our differing perceptions. for example, a colour blind person does not see the same world as a non-colourblind person, but they are both interacting with the same exact world.

@jayk5549 10 месяцев назад

Wow. I’ve read lots about this issue. Fascinated. You nailed it all in a few minutes.

@rashidabaakza8554 8 месяцев назад

😊Nicer and Newer way to approach our own brain 🧠 and try to figure out reality vs imagination. Also better not to assume things and avoid being judgmental. 👌✌️

@rickcoyne7845 5 месяцев назад

Fantastic Video with a great analogy of Reality. Thank you for this quick video!!

@roverphantom 10 месяцев назад

That’s so right!! It clearly states that the environment we live in, the people we are around with, the knowledge we are gaining and multiple factors going around us and we are thinking of, will define our interests and likings. Make yourself around successful and kind people to become one!!

@hhairball9 3 месяца назад

Reality is personal. My reality is not your reality

@Zencba 26 дней назад

could one say your personality is your personal reality?

@UknownAfrican 26 дней назад

@@ZencbaYes because it’s part of who you are and you can always change it as well but will take time.

@ZAYNsOUKI 18 дней назад

Cristiano ronaldo is a footballer, for you he is a tennis player ?

@MARISHADUTTA 18 дней назад

Well said

@Zencba 18 дней назад

@@ZAYNsOUKI for you he is footballer, for me he is soccerballer

@Frank-ox3np 10 месяцев назад

People should realize that this brain prediction mechanism that shapes your understanding of the outside world is the same things that shapes who YOU THINK YOU ARE. You are just one of those predictions. A useful tool, but something that completely imprisons your potential and ability to experience freedom.

@DU20HolisticOasis 5 дней назад

I’m reading this book now and it’s amazing.

@smithgov 4 месяца назад

Reality is not a perception. Reality is the way it is (the truth), independent of our perception or knowledge of it.

@yashwant675 3 месяца назад

"Advaita Vedanta" philosophy

@thosebastards4279 3 месяца назад

exactly. waste of time video.

@victoriaa8842 14 дней назад

false

@asloii_1749 9 дней назад

Which we can never really know or see

@smithgov 9 дней назад

@@asloii_1749 incorrect

@alexplotkin3368 10 месяцев назад

German philosopher Immanuel Kant explored a lot of this in his writings. He pointed out we are limited to by what our mental apparatus can process. Is that truly reality?

@bhnuc 10 месяцев назад

Indian spiritual leader and guru Swami Vivekananda also said on this that reality is subjective experience. He gives example if suddenly humans develope ability to see UV rays (which is a particular spectrum of radiation like colors ) the whole world will seem different to us.

@jaredcarian6277 10 месяцев назад

'I have spoken of myself looking outward and of the other people looking at me. Now, the third result of the Christian view of epistemology is this: reality and imagination...I live in a thought world which is filled with creativity; inside my head there is creative imagination. Why? Because God, who is the Creator, has made me in his own image, I can go out in imagination beyond the stars. This is true not only for the Christian, but for evey man. Every man is made in the image of God; therefore, no man in his imagination is confined to his own body. Going out in our imagination, we can change something of the form of the universe as a result of our thought world - in our painting, poetry, or as an engineer, or a gardener. Is that not wonderful? Its is not just a matter of photography, like Antonioni's Blowup - click, click, click. I am there, I am able to impose the results of my imagination on the external world. ..knowing that God made the external world, there is no confusion for me between that which is imaginary and that which is real. The Christian is free; free to fly, because he is not confused between his fantasy and the reality which God has made. So we are not inwardly confused. We are free to say, " This is imagination." Is it not marvelous to be a painter and make things a little different from nature- not just to "photograph" nature but to make things a little different? Is it not wonderful to be made in the image of God and be able to use our creativity in this way? But although this is true, as a Christian I have the epistemology that enables me to not get confused between what I think and what is objectively real. The modern generation does not have this, and this is the reason why some youngsters are all torn up in these areas...' - Francis Schaeffer, He is there and He is not silent, Ch.4 The Epistemological Necessity: The Answer

@Jan96106 10 месяцев назад

He said we can never know the thing in itself. There is a thing, but we' can't know it. I am not a scientific realist. Many philosophers aren't.

@scambammer6102 10 месяцев назад

@@Jan96106 If we can't know the thing in itself how do we know there is one? Kant was a moron.

@christianowen369 13 дней назад

Reality perception with the brain, mind, and sensory perceptions alone will produce a naive realistic view…dwelling on the surface of reality. Engagement with gut instinct, and the intuitive power of the heart will produce a deeper, more expansive experience of reality…sovereign and interconnected, a co-creative being in oneness.

@julieparker9298 8 месяцев назад

Super cool. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

@hwway4488 10 месяцев назад

Eye balls, eardrums and motor & sensor neurons: just part of a brain box’s external interface. Why do we see and hear the part of the spectrum that we do? Why didn’t we evolve to see infrared light or hear very high frequencies? Probably because it was not useful socially, and if you didn’t know, social interfacing is what most necessary for our survival and most of what our lives consist of.

@philosophemes 9 месяцев назад

"Create" is such a loaded term. If the brain created reality, then no one would ever starve. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is still the best (Western) ontological explanation of the re-presentation of reality. Thanks for putting this together!

@granthurlburt4062 8 месяцев назад

You have missed the point. Read it as: the brain "creates a model of reality". You must know that is what this statement means. . It could be better stated, I agree.

@bodhiapurva3887 8 месяцев назад

@@philosophemes Does your brain create a perception of reality or is true reality something completely different from what our senses are registering? A Buddhist is taught that sense reality is illusory and perhaps we can learn something from that way of viewing existence.

@philosophemes 8 месяцев назад

@@bodhiapurva3887 Thank you. It's good to think about the Five Aggregates. I wouldn't say "completely different." Good questions. I'd ask these too: Is ultra-violet light real? 100 people a year die from eating poisonous mushrooms, but when they ate them, they believed they weren't poisonous. So, why did they die? There are many people who believe Donald Trump won the last election in the U.S.A Does that mean that he presently has the power of the President of the U.S.A?

@jvjjjvvv9157 8 месяцев назад

I agree. The way the title is phrased is definitely more sensationalist and clickbaity than it is educational, because it equivocates by using the word 'reality' ambiguously. I can imagine many people reading the title of this video and interpreting it as if there was no good reason to assume that an objective reality exists outside of our brains, but there absolutely is and our brains do not 'create' that reality in any sense, it has nothing to do with us and it's the same whether we're there to perceive it or not. All this video does is explain that what we sometimes call reality, using the word slightly differently from 'that which exists', is the input from the outside interpreted by our own brains (and in that sense, of course our brains are inherent to the concept of 'reality').

@truthseeker7815 6 месяцев назад

@@jvjjjvvv9157, that's not clickbait, I don't think a majority thought we are gods and our brains indeed create matter

@tomsisson660 4 месяца назад

What we perceive with the senses has to be processed by something in the mind. Not just the brain. The best explanation for this comes from German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He believed that the information of the senses is processed by the categories of perception, then processed by the categories of understanding (so that we can understand what we are perceiving), and then processed by the categories of reason when we reflect upon reality and reason about it. Tom Sisson

@cameronpardy1793 7 месяцев назад

This video is absolutely fascinating but the comments are comedic genius..thank you

@thanduxolonelisiwe3265 8 месяцев назад

Each of our brains form a reality based on how their perceive sensory information. And almost all of it is influenced by our past experiences as our brains love to take shortcuts and make connections quickly.

@asloii_1749 9 дней назад

And our brains are all so different that it’s entirely possible we all see the world in totally different ways. Not just perspective but the colors and sounds we hear

@terrencekawanga7720 10 месяцев назад

From infancy, there are things that come with us like the heartbeat, sucking milk and swallowing. The rest are things we learn which the brain has to keep and relate to in every situation. Even imagination can only originate from the things the brain is already keeping. This is a gift from our creator with lots of love

@sliverbox271991 10 месяцев назад

that's evolution, not a gift from some magical creator, though I agree with you in everything else you said but that sentence

@terrencekawanga7720 8 месяцев назад

@@sliverbox271991 if evolution was true then by now we should have evolved into something else or the earth would have moved further away from the sun according to the big bang theory. Can you tell me how your intelligent mind came to be just by chance? We can talk about a lot that evolution can not support or make sense.

@JinnLLC 10 месяцев назад

The final statement resonates greatly with me.

@picofaradactyl 7 месяцев назад

You are deserving of all the good things that life has to offer! ❤‍🔥

@15509020sl 10 месяцев назад

It's great to hear the arguments of someone who has studied the brain for decades!

@anywallsocket 10 месяцев назад

“I’m gonna use a metaphor…” *explains the literal situation*

@BillTranmer 10 месяцев назад

Bad editing

@peterdorn5799 Месяц назад

from inside out, the brain creates a model of the physical world

@dbertovi 6 месяцев назад

This is definitely one of the best videos I have observed on YT.

@Absurd-Woman 10 месяцев назад

*She spent so much time to simply say that our brains rely on MEMORY (i.e data imprints) to form predictive actions based on patterns, and that they also form constructs based on functions to create "social realities."* In effect, ancient vedic teachings have been explicating this for thousands of years in the simplest of ways.

@CoreyChambersLA 10 месяцев назад

Everything is waves, and our brain interprets the waves as they hit us via touch, sight, sound, taste, smell as human experiences. Our brain turns the wave patterns into human-relatable sensations primarily interpreted in ways that enhance our survival and reproduction. Our interpretation can have very little to do with the original wave patterns.

@miguelrosado7649 6 месяцев назад

Agree. This is how I describe it - Reality is the perception of the interactions of the energy fields in the universe. There are different means to perceive energy fields, so reality is not the same for all perceivers. If there is no perception, the energy fields are in the state of existence/being.

@jackbuff_I 10 месяцев назад

I remember a few years ago, an ex was offended at something silly like South Park or something similar, and I tried to explain to her that being offended at something was *_her_* doing. Yes the subject might be controversial etc but it comes down to whether *_you_* as person *_wants_* to be offended. Your brain has (rightly or wrongly) reacted to something and the result is taking offence. But we as singular human beings with our own brains can just as easily *switch off* the "I'm now offended" switch. When people realise (and it's not often that this particular penny ever drops) that THEY decide to make themselves offended on their own, they take back a HUGE amount of control over their psyche.

@drblitz3092 10 месяцев назад

It’s all just noise anyways. Sometimes I just walk around people pretending I m just walking through a zoo. Human Talking is no different than animal noises that u can’t understand. It’s all just noise

@jvjjjvvv9157 8 месяцев назад

People don't decide to be offended more than they decide to agree with something, or fall in love, or experience loneliness, or anything else. It is a pretty bizarre use of language to frame the concept of being offended as a 'decision'. By taking it just a little bit further, I could smack you in the face and tell you that it is you who decided to feel pain, because it is your brain that interprets the feeling as pain after all. But that would be pretty silly, wouldn't it.

@lifeinakingdom8479 Месяц назад

Excellent explanation 👏

@deankap2282 7 месяцев назад

You make a lot of sense. I like listening to you. Thank you!❤

@alvarosannar3213 5 дней назад

Maybe her brain, as far as ! Understand reality always has 3xisted without no end. My brain is an organ, a mechanism, like a computer. It’s always thinking, analyzing, downloading, remembering, forgetting, and finding out an understanding about the mystery of what’s real, then learning from it. My brain doesn’t creat what’s actually there, like the difference between a human being and a tree, or when touching a hot stove and get burned, for example. “i” am more than a brain and a body. As this vessel gets older, my mind stay young because there is an enormous amount of reality to learn.

@adnansheikh3505 10 месяцев назад

Reality is only that thing which we actually want to feel by heart and mind

@cesarguadarrama8732 10 месяцев назад

Reality happens and exists Even if Your brain does not work. Or Even if You are sleeping

@BruceLeon83 10 месяцев назад

Fairly deep. Thanks for this. Science and Philosophy at its best.

@noelwass4738 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for helping me gain more insight!

@AtypicalPaul 10 месяцев назад

We can't know what reality is. We can have theories but we'll never truly know what the underlying reality is. We can only hope to understand social reality.

@PLHarpoon 10 месяцев назад

I strongly disagree. There is a physical reality which we cannot fully experience but we can comprehend it. There are also social realities which means concepts that only exist within societies. Comprehending physical reality and social realities are entirely different subjects and I'm afraid you're mixing them up.

@AtypicalPaul 10 месяцев назад

@PLHarpoon we don't truly comprehend anything. We merely create our own reality with the tiny amount of information our brains can perceive. We have no idea what is real. We are but ants walking on a beach ball. We have no idea what is real. This physical reality you say we know about is an illusion created by our brains. We don't truly know much. We can play the game of life, but we don't know the code (reality), and I speculate it isn't even possible to.

@nitzan60 10 месяцев назад

@@PLHarpoon you can comprehend only what you can sense, you will never know if there are other things in this reality you are trying to comprehend that will never evoke in you any sensual information, thus you cant hope to comprehend reality fully.

@PLHarpoon 10 месяцев назад

@@nitzan60 Not true. Simple example: we can comprehend the full light spectrum yet we can sense only a fraction of it.

@nitzan60 10 месяцев назад

@@PLHarpoon you are saying that you cant sense the "full" light spectrum because you cant see it, but you do sense it, just not directly, you sense it through its interactions with things that you can sense and by that you can comprehend it. what about things that do not interact with anything you can sense? note I put in quotes "full", that is because you do not know if what we do know about the light spectrum is indeed all of it, unless you define the spectrum that we know of as the full light spectrum, but then you just defined reality, doesn't mean it is the actual reality.

@aymanbadr8135 10 месяцев назад

I can sit and listen to this woman talk for hours

@amdeko 6 месяцев назад

I will keep clapping for others until its my turn 🎉🎉

@mikeharding5674 3 месяца назад

The fact that we can't perceive all wavelengths of light and sound seems an accurate answer to the question.

@aGrapeInUtero 10 месяцев назад

My past experience is of course very useful but very harmful at times. I categorize things wrong because of my childhood trauma. It’s something I’m trying to be more conscious of and change.

@truthwatcher2096 10 месяцев назад

It's interesting how she went on a tangent and completely dodged the question, as if she was saying "if you want the answer, buy my book"

@p-nutgallery2511 10 месяцев назад

If you want the answers take a long walk off a short dock over shark infested waters

@onethree123d 10 месяцев назад

She answered to me

@DJRenee 10 месяцев назад

LoL 😂

@PlutoRama 6 дней назад

This came to me just on time ♥

@D.Verdad 8 месяцев назад

Finally mysticism and science are coming back together. This is not new, it's been there for thousands of years, but, we've been so stubborn we have denied it.

@MonacoBlast66 10 месяцев назад

Consciousness is fundamental.

@moderncontemplative 10 месяцев назад

I think this view is correct, and so does Christof koch, Giulio Tonini, Roger Penrose, and Donald Hofman, to name a few top-notch scientists.

@craigwillms61 10 месяцев назад

@@moderncontemplative see also Bernardo Kastrup - super interesting premise, his notion of consciousness.

@moderncontemplative 10 месяцев назад

@@craigwillms61 thanks!

@jimflagg4009 10 месяцев назад

The Brain fills in the blanks and makes assumptions. Plus there is a delay of sensors input and the time it takes to reach the brain and for the brain to process that info and determine what to do with it. Because of the speed issues sometimes the brain takes shortcut like reflexes. The fear response. This causes us to jump to get out of the way even when there is no real danger.

@markb3786 10 месяцев назад

really good comment

@antoniocadaixa4421 2 месяца назад

its wonderful to learn from this woman

@woutervanlent5181 2 месяца назад

In the future we will reason more in this philosophical way. We become more pragmatic through all forms of computer science

@stachowi 10 месяцев назад

This is also how Machine Learning (subset of AI) works... loved this.

@itssoaztek4592 10 месяцев назад

"This is also how Machine Learning (subset of AI) works... " Yes, minus the attitude.

@billumnbvc4608 10 месяцев назад

I hope everyone watched the same thing and reacted the same way as me

@realmenarzo7720 Месяц назад

Thank you 🙏

@ayushsaxena9386 22 дня назад

I liked your video. It is knowledgeable and enough to make anyone think about the brain and reality.

@anywallsocket 10 месяцев назад

Your brain is not modeling the world or your body, it is modeling your body’s embeddedness in the world.

@BillTranmer 10 месяцев назад

It's doing all 3. Otherwise, you'll be disconnected from reality in some way.

@anywallsocket 10 месяцев назад

@@BillTranmer no, the other two are derivable as internal or external projections of the interface, and the fact that the interface is all you need means nature would most likely optimize for it, rather than two descriptions needing reconciliation.

@colinpierre3441 10 месяцев назад

@@anywallsocket The bigger question is, what do you think happens to a person's consciousness when they die?

@anywallsocket 10 месяцев назад

@@colinpierre3441 it melts into the aether

@colinpierre3441 10 месяцев назад

@@anywallsocket Ok, but do you believe that there is any way for our consciousness to return if it melts away? In other words, do you believe in a Creator?

@Corteum 10 месяцев назад

Brain doesnt detect or create reality. It limits conscious perception of it, like a filter. Aldous Huxley was one (of many) who described it this way, or a similar way, after experiencing certain alternate states of consciousness and coming to that realization. You could liken the brain to a 2-way radio or transceiver. It's a kind of mechanism to specialize conscious experience in a very unique, but ultimately, distorted and/or limited (yet valid) way.

@craigwillms61 10 месяцев назад

See Bernardo Kastrup to expand on the notion of the brain as a filter. I'm not sure I buy everything he is selling but it is so damn interesting...

@larykenobi 10 месяцев назад

Yes, it really sounds like how some people describe the world after NDE or psychedelic experience.

@granthurlburt4062 8 месяцев назад

It certainly does detect it.

@Corteum 8 месяцев назад

@@granthurlburt4062 No. Consciousness "detects" it. Without consciousness, brain is just a lump of meat.

@valentina-b 6 месяцев назад

“sometimes we have a lot of trouble staying in the present. You have to practice your ability to control how much you want to be constrained by what’s going on outside that box and how much you want to be free of it”

@MOMO-hn2he 10 месяцев назад

You have to practice your ability to control how much you want to be constrained by what’s going on outside the box and how much you want to be free of it …

@bjorneriksson420 10 месяцев назад

Reality is all there is left, when any description of it falls into silience.

@nocosa 10 месяцев назад

This is very Zen. Or lacan theory can be similar...

@farhanaditya2647 10 месяцев назад

... Wow

@Nikolai0007 10 месяцев назад

Happy "Thursday"

@Nikolai0007 10 месяцев назад

New username / nickname for me, thank you

@byronfranek2706 10 месяцев назад

Time is the most perplexing aspect of reality for me. The present is now. And now. And now... By the time we perceive the present, it has become the past, due to the tiny amount of time it takes to process inputs and to form a thought. So if someone tells me I am living in the past, I say yes, of course.

@applepie-sq8mm 5 дней назад

Thank you Kant

@DeusShaggy 10 месяцев назад

I like to think of every aspect of all of my knowledge of reality all at once from subatomic particle physics to modern physics, to Earth's geodynamics, to all of the living organisms from the microbes to the whales including all humans, along with all of their interactions including all humans, our solar system then out to the Milky Way galaxy then out to the edge of the Universe and all of its interactions between, and I like to run it all together from the present back to the big bang and then from the present out to infinity, then I think back to myself reflecting on my reality and I wonder, what exactly is your reality is like.

@markusbaker1161 10 месяцев назад

Word for word you hit the nail on the head. You’re the first I’ve met to share this thinking. Thanks for sharing this.

@BenGrimm977 10 месяцев назад

Each person is a unique reality unto themselves. That is what consciousness is.

@yashwant675 3 месяца назад

"Advaita Vedanta" philosophy

@eddieking2976 4 месяца назад

Highly recommend BT talk with Dr Robert Sapolsky.

@FunFindsYT 10 месяцев назад

It’s interesting, because the colors of objects we see are just the reflected light in the visible color spectrum. A strawberry isn’t just red, it has a wide range of «colours» imperceptible to us.

@backcountrybushcraft 10 месяцев назад

But is there not a “true” reality? Regardless of how we perceive the universe, won’t it continue to function and evolve? Can we base reality collectively and come to a conclusion? Because if a ball drops off of a building, who can deny it? I have so many questions lol

@loganleatherman7647 10 месяцев назад

Yes, there has to be an objective reality, whatever that is, or else we couldn’t first exist at all to have our developed subjective experiences. Humans get so caught up in this arrogant “my perception is reality; reality is my perception” dance that it gets insufferably annoying.

@MCart1215 10 месяцев назад

@@loganleatherman7647 So what is the objective reality? Reality is decentralised and is not the same for anything, alive or not.

@Zzyzzyx 10 месяцев назад

@@loganleatherman7647I think her point is that our *experience* of the world is constructed by our brains, not that the world is constructed by our brains.

@KhurtKhave669 10 месяцев назад

She’s ultimately talking about Twitter/cancel culture people and others like herself who deny physical reality in a vain attempt to create their own social reality. She is a hack.

@katherandefy 10 месяцев назад

If so we are all looking at different aspects of it. And making entirely different conclusions. Brain patterns that are similar will derive somewhat similar interpretations of reality by sharing culture and/or cognitive levels and areas of synaptic entraining. Others will be “wrong” by virtue of coming from different societies and different focal and experiential matrices. Example: the word for “snow” in a part of the world it never snows will be not just be wrong but nonexistent. It won’t compute very well if at all. Another example: a painter of house exteriors may share some experiences with John Singer Sargeant but they won’t other things about painting. Ella Fitzgerald’s perception of music is different from that of her listeners.