887: Andy Clark | How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
University of Sussex cognitive philosophy professor Andy Clark joins us to discuss how our brains experience and manipulate the reality that surrounds us.
What We Discuss with Andy Clark:- How your brain operates as a prediction machine that constructs an estimation of reality based on available data rather than relaying an entirely precise narrative of the outside world.
- The problems that arise when the senses through which your brain gathers data don't always convey an accurate picture of reality.
- What phantom vibration syndrome and auditory hallucinations may indicate about your brain's capacity for prediction.
- How your brain fills in the gaps when sensory information is missing or incomplete.
- Why placebos are often effective — even when you know they're placebos.
- And much more...
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