PREVIEW: #BRAIN: Excerpt from a conversation with Professor Andy Clark of the University of Sussex re how the brain works to predict events before it may or may not experience the same events. More of this later.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Experience-Machine-Minds-Predict-Reality/dp/1524748455
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| 0:31.0 | conversation later with Professor Andy Clark, his book is The Experience Machine, |
| 0:36.7 | how our minds predict and shape reality. |
| 0:42.0 | The professor gives us the example of the white Christmas experiment that has been used |
| 0:47.5 | many times over many decades. |
| 0:50.9 | This is asking undergraduates to listen to sound files and each time they hear Bing Crosby singing |
| 0:59.8 | White Christmas, they're to press a button. They're brought in and they put on their |
| 1:05.6 | headsets and they listen. Surprising thing is, one-third of them hear it. Two-thirds do not. The twist, there was no white Christmas ever. |
| 1:20.0 | It's white noise. What explains this? Why to one third of the people confidently say they heard |
| 1:26.0 | white Christmas? The experience machine, how our minds predict and shape reality? |
| 1:32.1 | Good evening, John. It's great to be here. predict and shape reality. |
| 1:33.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:34.0 | It's great to be here. |
| 1:35.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, so the White Christmas experiments are kind of very interesting sort of set of experiments dating back actually to |
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