Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
We realists take the view that reality is out there: objective, physical and independent of what we believe about it. But we never experience that reality directly. Every last scrap of our external experience is of virtual reality. And every last scrap of our knowledge – including our knowledge of the non-physical worlds of logic, mathematics and p
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Once again, your brain recreates the past from memory by asking itself, The last time I encountered a similar situation, when my body was in a similar state and was preparing this particular action, what did I see next? What did I feel next? The answer becomes your experience. In other words, your brain combines information from outside and inside
... See moreLisa Feldman Barrett • Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.