Neuroscience

Memories are not a true or false picture of the past; they are a Monet lily pond.

When the mind searches for the future, it sees the past.

Rather, in our brain’s pursuit to plan, survive, and achieve our goals, it has learned how to guess what the world is actually like based on incoming sensory data. Those predictions are always uncertain, at least to a degree, which is why the goal of predictive processing is often described as minimizing that uncertainty.

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