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The Jordan Harbinger Show

177: Beau Lotto | Why You See Differently When You Deviate

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Beau Lotto (@beaulotto) is a world-renowned neuroscientist who specializes in the biology and psychology of perception. He is the author of Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently.

What We Discuss with Beau Lotto:
  • Why our brains evolved to experience the world differently from reality.
  • What Beau means when he says: "Choose your delusion or it will choose you." 
  • How our experiences literally change our physical makeup.
  • Why the more complex your environment is, the more complex your brain will be.
  • How our assumptions control our perceptions and what we can do to break free from assumptions that don't serve us.
  • And much more...

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0:30.2

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harmanjur.

0:32.2

As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

0:35.2

Most of us, myself included, of course,

0:37.6

grow up with the idea that the things we see are the things that actually exists out in the world.

0:43.4

I see a hairless cat in front of me.

0:45.2

There's a hairless cat in front of me, end of story.

0:47.8

But if you've ever read up on perception, or perhaps just made a cameo at Burning Man,

0:52.8

you might be familiar with the idea that our eyes and ears don't really see in here.

0:57.2

But everything our sense is take in is just electric signals that our brain decodes

1:01.6

and creates pictures of inside our heads.

1:04.4

And this is why people can learn to see with their tongues, literally, see with their tongues.

1:09.0

We can also develop powers of echolocation to see objects when we're blind, et cetera.

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