Preston Pish.

Welcome back to the What is Money Show for session two of the Pish series.

Let's do it.

So we're talking about The Brain by David Eagleman, which is an excellent book you recommended.

And a book that just makes you think differently about thinking, I guess you could say.

And I think we left off, we're talking about the, that reality actually as we perceive it

is really just a biological interface.

And we touched a little bit on that other book, The Case Against Reality, which you said

you read and kind of just thought was intuitive.

So I think it's your background on reading about the brain is probably books like this.

You already really understood or you considered reality a biological interface.

But for someone like me, I started out with an astrophysics and whatnot.

I've always kind of thought we perceived objective reality

as it is. So that was a real flip in my mind. And I think a lot of people's minds would just

see the world in a different way. And so the way Eagleman puts this is he says, your

interpretation of physical objects has everything to do with

the historical trajectory of your brain and little to do with the objects themselves,

which to me is just mind blowing. So it's like, so we don't even see what's real. We see

what our brain is designed to see.

Yeah. And it has it goes to, we talked about this a little bit in the first part,

but with the labeling piece of like how your brain labels things and how it uses

biological value through either fear or happiness or whatever to label things.

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