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People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Jonah Lehrer
Reality, People, Important

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.

Jonah Lehrer
Reality, Long, Mind

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

Jonah Lehrer
Art, Reality, Needs
Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

Jonah Lehrer
Reality, Knows
Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.

Jonah Lehrer
Art, Reality, Ironic
Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.12, Canongate Books

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