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Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

David Eagleman
Reality, Brain
Twitter post from Apr 25, 2016

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

David Eagleman
Reality, Small Rooms, Knowing
David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.209, Vintage

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us. Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.

David Eagleman
Eye, Reality, Thinking

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

David Eagleman
Reality, Biology, Depends

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

David Eagleman
Home, Reality, Perception

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

David Eagleman
Believe, Reality, Differences
David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.89, Vintage

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

David Eagleman
Reality, Collision, Battered
David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives”, p.110, Vintage

When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

David Eagleman
Reality, Voice, People

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