You can quite literally peel back the fabric of reality if you ask AI the right questions. https://t.co/UtiVg05807

If my husband’s social feed is different from mine, we will literally be experiencing two different realities in waking life. Which brings up a bigger question: we keep talking about AI, social media, and culture, but we rarely stop to ask, How do our brains construct reality in the first place? Contrary to what you might believe (or maybe just... See more

“What follows from this is equally profound and unsettling. Our brains, it turns out, are not even trying to determine what the world really is. Instead, what they are trying to do, with their two opposing flows of information, is align reality with expectation.”

— One Hand Clapping: Unraveling the Mystery of the Human Mind by Nikolay Kukushkin

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Because neither ‘memory banks’ nor ‘representations’ of stimuli exist in the brain, and because all that is required for us to function in the world is for the brain to change in an orderly way as a result of our experiences, there is no reason to believe that any two of us are changed the same way by the same experience . If you and I attend the... See more