Your brain doesn’t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett
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Our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain’s interpretation of these signals. This interpretation is influenced by past experiences and is often predictive, with the brain creating categories of similar instances to anticipate future events.
The brain’s categorization process extends beyond physical characteristics to include abstract, functional features. This ability allows humans to create “social reality,” where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don’t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship.
The brain’s capacity for imagination, drawing from past experiences to create something entirely new, is a double-edged sword. While it allows for creativity and innovation, it can also lead to difficulties in staying present.
0:00 The debate over reality
0:57 Objective reality
3:54 Social reality
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About Lisa Feldman Barrett:
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top 1% most-cited scientists in the world, having published over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Dr. Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior. She is the recipient of a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for transformative research, a Guggenheim Fellowship in neuroscience, the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and from the Society for Affect Science (SAS), and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association (APA). She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and a number of other honorific societies. She is the author of How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, and more recently, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
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We don’t perceive reality the way it is, we perceive reality the way we are….
... unless someone else finds the way to projects on your screen...
@@lillysnet9345only if you let them
So the way it is then
@@KamaleshwarMorjal How to stop them...
There is an objective reality, there's no doubt about it. The individual realities are the emotinal realities.
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality”- Tim Burton
That explains a lot about Tim Burton
Ah, yes, this floor is made of floor.
Useless quote
Okay? think deeply about that quote and you'll see has absolutely nothing to do with this💀
This is sooo true,what is my reality have seriously been other people thinking it's crazy, ridiculously shocking things have happened with me from childhood 💀💀till now 💀-
It really did hit very hard when she said at 06:07 , "Sometimes we have a lot of trouble staying in the present "
And spirituality comes to the rescue
How true
Definitely 👌
Imagine how different the world would be if everyone had this understanding and lived by it.
Clickbait title, we both create and detect reality, we interpret it. If you completely create your "reality" you're a full blown scitzo, if you only detect reality you're a literal sensor, a piece of hardware that's sole function is to take in external input and do nothing with it.
@@brantpowell5483 Exactly. The enlightenment has not rid the world of Religion or faith, nor has it retained its position of power where the human is central.
Saddly life gets hard for some, and changes the perception that they see. Environments change what people see, brain chemistry changes what we see, the one thing that stands time are the skills that aren't effected by our senses.
that world would be a world of chaos and destruction.
Opposites chase and follow one another in a perpetual dance.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" -Philip K. Dick
Kind of. You or I can stop believing in the electoral system, yet it still persists. But it’s not real. Impositions only matter when backed by force. But it don’t make them real
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"The theory changes the reality it describes." -From his novel _Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said_
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@@TeddehSpaghetti Philip K Dick.
I've always seen a difference between existance and reality, as in we all share the same existance but we live in different realities. This was especially clear to me because im colourblind, so it always struck me that the same eyes exist, same receptors exist, same photons exist, same object where the light bounces off exist, and still the colour i see isn't the real colour.
Strictly, there is no "real colour". Electromagnetic waves of a certain wavelength hit the retina and are passed along to the brain, which creates the experienced colour. If I alternatively open and close my right and left eye, I see slightly different shades of colour for the same object.
@@TorMax9 Thats what i mean! Colour doesn't exist, but it is very real.
@@chej9 - Yes, colour doesn't exist without the eye - and the brain - of the beholder but the experience is very real and vivid and stimulating. Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" can be turned into "It stimulates, therefore it is". This can be extended to religious and aesthetic and intellectual experiences. Then, when the eye and the brain and consciousness are turned onto themselves, we run into conundrums, either an infinite regress or end at "no-mind" à la Zen, etc. In the end, its all awe and wonder. Enjoy to the maximum so long it lasts. Cheers!
Good point
@@TorMax9I am not sure if I understand what you mean when you mention the conundrums and specify “no-mind” + infinite regress and reference Zen. It is to my understanding a lot of those eastern philosophies and religions try to ground you more in the moment to live second by second along with your brain rather than have your mind be jumbled with thoughts and predictions/ideas that are often against what I can say (with probably 90% certainty at least) is that peace and mental clarity we all want. Which, I can see it having its problems if you take it to the extreme, as there are always outliers.
her examples being “because we all agree” was the most powerful part of this video for me. “because we all agree…” if only we could carry that into every aspect of being alive together…
Hello! yes you reading this. I've been waiting for you. I am happy you are here now. You are on the right path. What you seek will come to you.
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languages are also one of many tools we use to "map out" reality in our brains. Time for example is so abstract and some languages construct them into a linear, horizontal and usually from left-to-right phenomenon. Some languages, like Chinese, even have an additional "perception" or description of time, describing it on a linear, VERTICAL and top-to-bottom phenomenon.
"before" and "after" are spatio-temporal words we use in English (and other languages like German) to describe time on a more or less horizontal line. Chinese does this too but also says "Monday is above Tuesday", connotating it as being "earlier".
That doesn't mean that some languages set your way of thinking in stone, you can always learn another language and adapt to different ways of perceiving the world. After all, we all have brains that are equally capable.
Arrival film tackle this theme saying that aliens language are like time which is in circular form never ending
Ya it's called sappor whorf hypothesis but it's not a theory as of yet.
@@frodoBagginsfromIndia the theory has been debunked pretty fast by linguist academia. The sapir-whorfian theory did not get far as they suggested that there is an "inherent" limit to those communities that had "limited" linguistic features that narrows down their way of speaking and ultimately perceiving the world.
But it can be shown that polyglots and even just by learning another language, you can adopt another mental approach of abstract things.
If you think about it, many Afro-Americans don't even know where they came from and also adpoted children from elsewhere, they are all just fine. The human brain is (for the most part" equally capable. Language is a tool that can be learned by any human, how smart that human is however, is an individual thing not tied to their whole ethnicity or community.
Stoners been having these thoughts for decades
*centuries
Our consciousness is the fabric out of which we make your life.
Our consciousness is the ground of our every response to every single thing which happens in our mental, emotional and physical life.
Our consciousness is reality.
This statement may be expressed in 2 ways, both of which are the truth of existence.
Our consciousness creates reality, irrespective of actual facts.
When people believed the earth was flat, they were afraid to venture too far over the ocean lest the ship will fall over the edge. People who believed in a flat earth, lived according to that belief.
When Galileo said the earth was round, he was considered a heretic and a blasphemer but his perception of the "roundness of the earth" enabled sailors to take a new look at the world and set out to discover what lay the other side of the ocean. It required a change in their belief to make this possible.
We are in a similar position. People who discount and ridicule others are like people who believe in a flat earth and were afraid of falling over the edge if they sailed too far to the west or east of their known environment. Their horizons are severely limited by their false beliefs. So are the horizons of people who believe the world to be solid, also severely restricted.
Day after day, people lament and grieve over the misfortunes which have befallen the world, believing there is no escape from them.
But people who can grasp and welcome the Truth of Consciousness are like those who perceived that travel on the oceans can be limitlessly undertaken in all directions, as long as they have the will to set out on such a journey.
Therefore, our state of consciousness is the most important consideration in our life-not our relationships or possessions or our position in life.
Tend to your consciousness and the blessedness in all aspects of your life will follow.
By our consciousness we feed ourselves with inner love and harmony, joy and beauty, even in the backstreets of a slum.
With such consciousness, we will find ourselves being removed from the streets of the slum into an environment in keeping with our Godness. So do we climb out of unpleasant circumstances.
From the foregoing, you should now be able to see that only we create the "quality" of our internal world, whether we find ourselves externally in prison or in command of a battleship!
And we can enhance our surroundings by radiating to them the life force which animates our thinking.
Our external life only impinges on our consciousness. It does not-cannot-create or determine our conscious responses.
We are the "creator" of our responses.
Our type of creation depends entirely on our deepest perceptions and beliefs regarding existence.
Our convictions and strongly-held beliefs may be completely illusory but if we fully believe in them in our subconscious, they become absolutely real for us.
Hahaha... I feel no, they really haven't. Majority are indoctrinated into a system they dislike, and smoke as a band aid blanket & feeling avoidance tool . Not sure it offers real inner freedom for most these days due to the beliefs and opinions of the plant. But not all...... I think maybe you have a field of psychic connection to energy fields that help us shape new realities and create new inventions etc
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@@madi8181 *millennia
One of my favorite examples for thinking about the way we view reality is color. Outside of our brain and eyes, color doesn't actually exist. It's only through our eyes and brain that we understand and perceive color. Color only exists when there is a being that has a way to perceive the interaction between photons and the molecular structure of objects -- which is what we see as color; over time life evolved to have eyes and they are an incredible tool (or were created by a creator).
Of course it was designed.
Even if evolution is completely true ( it has some bugs) it is the language that life was programmed. Like a seed that turns into a tree.
And of course it is my view on universe.
Interesting because no matter how the entity in our world exists, it could take doff forms and shapes depending on how other creature sensories work.
Existence is not in a stop motion, it is constantly ever changing and at the same time, it never is.
@chrisysk91 and more instresting is none of those creatures are fully aware or conscious of everything.
It is not imaginable how big and instresting is the full reality.
You could take this further and say that nothing actually exists and everything is just one ever changing thing being perceived by a finite POV, which your own mind and body in the present moment is at the centre of.
@pslanez hi.
But your saying has paradoxes.
If everything doesn't exist so where are these informations that is received are coming? From nothing? Then you say your body and your mind. These two exist for sure right?
Absolutely fascinating! Lisa Feldman Barrett's explanation of how our brains construct reality is both enlightening and thought-provoking. The idea that our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth, but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain's interpretation of these signals, is a profound insight. It's intriguing to think about how our past experiences and the brain's predictive capabilities influence our perception. Also, the concept of 'social reality' where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don’t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship, is a powerful reminder of the role our collective consciousness plays in shaping our world. This video has definitely given me a lot to ponder on. Looking forward to more content like this!
The most interesting & scary thing is our brains are actually watching this, and thinking: wow this is how I work...Amazing!😆
@@elinope4745 The problem is not that we sometimes don't perceive the outside world correctly. It's that we never do. It's not that we are sometimes trapped in an illusion. It's that we always are. That doesn't have to lead to solipsism, though. The fact that we can't access objective reality doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
@@DoloresLehmann the fact is that we might be missing some experiences that others have or that no humans can have. I.e. seeing ultraviolet light or Magnetoreception that birds do
the content left out the notion that the imagination is led to create the idea of SELF. "I" do this, "I" am watching that.. without understanding that the active 'software' is scripted by responses to psychological/social environments .. Perhaps that's why we personalize objects and 'our' experiences with 'my'/'mine' - including our thoughts, and it hurts 'our' imagined egos when 'my opinions' are contradicted.
@@GameFuMaster Yes, that too, but we shouldn't forget that species who have that kind of reception ALSO don't have an access to objective reality. Like, who sees this flower correctly? Me, who sees it as white, or the bee that sees it as purple? Neither. Both are subjective perceptions. In objective reality, there are no colours. Does that mean that colourblind people or species have the correct perception? No, because their experience of the world is also only composed of subjective impressions. And so on.
@@NormanFinkelstein9863 Great point. The fundamental problem is that objective reality maybe (I mean, how could I ever know) has no boundaries, no limitations at all. But such a reality doesn't allow for experiences. So life has developped artificial separations between different "things" and different "beings". Everything we experience is an illusion, including ourselves, but the experiences we're allowed to make on this illusionary basis are real in the sense that they allow the universal consciousness to increase.
That's also the reason why so many spiritual traditions emphasize the necessity of letting go of your ego: You have to unmask it for the illusion that it is. "We" don't exist as separate egos, we are just one more iteration of universal consciousness, ultimately tied to all the other "consciousnesses" that exist, like waves in the ocean. A wave might emerge for a little moment and seem to be an individual "thing", but it's nothing more than the ocean itself momentarilly acquiring this shape at a certain spot.
In our pursuit of understanding reality, it is imperative that we do not overlook the subjective element inherent within each individual. We should not solely rely on external perspectives or objective measurements to define reality. Instead, we must explore the inner landscape of the psyche, both on an individual and collective level.
We should look into these intricate realms of consciousness. These uncharted expanses offer a treasure trove of insights and experiences, transcending the limitations of our everyday reality.
Yep and quantum physics is actually proving this with the double slit experiment and debating whether reality is local or not.
Problem is, the rest of the scientific community is still stuck in a very rigid & objective reality, particularly gps & specialists.
@@Vgallo quantum physics is objective, we just don't understand it completely
The brain itself is an illusion. If you were to stop observing a brain 🧠, the electrons or elementary particles that make up the brain would go back into its original wave state of chance, probability, or possibility.
@@scambammer6102 Quantum physics is inherently non-objective, is the thing. It's probabilistic.
@@ferretbacon Well that's wrong. QP (so far) says that two observers can view different realities. That =/= "inherently non-objective". It just means our perception is flawed.
This video perfectly explains why mind-controll / social-engineering is so effective and how difficult it is to defend against it (especially in today's highly message-controlled technocratic world). The movie Blade Runner explored this with the question "Are your thoughts and memories really your own?". As it turns out, thie answer is not straightforward. Question everything you're told because chances are you are being manipulated, often against your better interests.
If I can control how and what I perceive, then I am the god of my own world.
more true when you can control the emotional lens.
Your obsessed with the word god buddy.
Maybe. But, how many ways are there to interpret fundamental things. Things happen or not. You have no control over that.
Solipsism is a dead end.
Go control how you take a beating from a Grizzly bear, lets see how godly you can be 😂
This is basically a summary of her book How Emotions Are Made. Love it!
Gasp! She wrote a book?! Shocker
@@JaysonT1 Wait until you find out she's written more than one...
is this her most recent one?
@@adamnascent7231aha so?…
In Hinduism this is called 'Maya'.
Right!
Maya- The Matrix
This is what I've been telling people for years is that we create our own reality.
This is so interesting. I've wondered about these kinds of things but in 6 minutes you managed to spell it out so clearly. Thank you!
Oh good so if a person hits lisa with a base ball bat then its her fault she cause it!
You may want to watch some really good videos about the brain, watch Dr Donal Hoffman "Nothing you see is real",
Don't ever believe a Marxist Feminist, especially their teachers/professors... or you will, regret it!
Its completely false to say your brain creates reality. Reality is either objective or subjective and so its obviously objective. So our brain is subjectively perceiving an objective reality. This statement contains more meaning than the whole video.
@@tswift48 Want to prove that with my baseball bat? Or rather ill prove the opposite of that silly claim with a baseball bat! Its up to you ! lets do science and see!
RUN AWAY FROM FACTS HERE!
oh! then i created this video! awesome! your welcome!!
No the way u experienced thsi bdue and made sense it's the result not everyone has same experience and understanding of this vide as uaew having may be in that way it's different or u create ur own relaity
Brilliant video! Thanks to all who contributed to creating it!!
FINALLY! I've had this intrusive thought lately that our reality is determined by the quality of our sensory organs and nervous system, other than that we are just brains (wrapped around a soul I guess) but what does the world really look like past our perception?
I think there's:
1- the reality of everything around us, physics, planets, dimensions?... All those.
2- the small part of reality n⁰1 that we can perceive AND THAT IS ALWAYS EVOLVING, we perceive it with our senses + the tools we create to discover more, microscope, mathematics, telescope, sensors... This reality we know of isn't the same we knew of 500 years ago.
3- the reality we construct like she said, social reality for example.
wrong, reality is a hoax, much like a dream. we are only fooling ourselves
And then there's the fact that all these different realities are in that sense real. I'd say the ultimate reality cannot fully be grasped by the mind - because it would be an infinite loop of unzooming out of space to understand the vastness and sheer size of this thing as opossed to humanity's egocentrical vantage point - but we can get a feel for it through the expansion of consciousness by gaining knowledge and experience, keeping our minds sincerely opened and being in touch with our emotions.
@We, and the universe we know and love, could be microscopic to something bigger.
@Our universe could be the equivalent of an atom for a world, if you could call it that, that's just unfathomably huge. That's where dimensions break down. At the atomic level. Like, if we were to study the inside of an atom, using microscopic tools, would we look like UFOs defying all physics to observers inside an atom?
@None of this matters cuz its likely not true. But just some things to think about, i suppose.
Imagination is a way of stretching our reality. Dipping our conceptual toes into the uncharted waters of ideas. Some find a vast ocean of knowledge, others fall into the endless pit of fantasies.
The hardest part is knowing how to differ this subtle characteristic
I had the thought that dreams may be a sort of microcosm of our true nature. How ultimately we use our imagination to materialize reality, but irl we confine ourselves by what we "see" as possible, and that very often limits us more than it should. We do not even perceive many possibilities because we automatically assume we see everything optimally. But when we dream we are materializing experiences from a different perspective, one with few to no boundaries where more is possible. I mean just knowing that more possibility exists than you're aware of opens you up to seeing it, like dreams are saying open up open up
But thinking about the "uncharted waters of ideas" presupposes that ideas already exist and the brain just take into then, as opposed to actually creating ideas internally, which is physically what happens.
Unless you're just thinking about the ideas that have already been created.
@@itsROMPERS... that's misunderstanding metaphors on purpose. If you go by that logic, we also can't dip our toes into ourselves. But we can think about our own thoughts, so metacognitivly speaking, sky is the recursive limit.
@@JustWojtek that what you're going with, "dip our toes into ourselves"?
Possibly the best description I have seen. Well done!
Well said. I would like to expound upon the talking points by mentioning the consensus of our collective consciousness and how we decide to classify and chronicle the objective things that we have become aware of. Having an agreed upon consensus, which identifies objects, enables us to name objects and make things real both inside our minds and within our observable surroundings.
Beautiful explanation. So important to question everything, and first and foremost ourselves
Reality is personal. My reality is not your reality
could one say your personality is your personal reality?
@@ZencbaYes because it’s part of who you are and you can always change it as well but will take time.
Cristiano ronaldo is a footballer, for you he is a tennis player ?
Well said
@@ZAYNsOUKI for you he is footballer, for me he is soccerballer
I realized, not long ago, that I was living almost my whole life focused into abstractions of reality I had about everything. I simply think too much. What made me understand was a series of experiences that faced those abstractions, like moving into a historical city and recreating events based by books and movies, or meet and work with talented and famous person and just realized: man they are just like me... sounds really dumb but in my mind, everything was bigger, polished, organized, more logical, more interpretable etc.
This was really great! She was fascinating to listen to, and she broke things down really well.
"Your hear a loud bang - it could be a gunshot" this is soo American! 😂 Here in Europe, a gunshot is the absolutely last thing we think of when we here a loud bang.
That's because Europian governments have a history of taking guns away from their citizens
Speak for yourself!
Unless you live in London or southern Sweden Lamo.
@@ReasonAboveEverythingor Paris
There in Europe are close minded 😅
That was such a great video, thank you. Really resonated. Much love Lisa xxx
It's called interpretation, and it influence every aspect of what we relate to being alive, except for arc reflex.
Eye balls, eardrums and motor & sensor neurons: just part of a brain box’s external interface. Why do we see and hear the part of the spectrum that we do? Why didn’t we evolve to see infrared light or hear very high frequencies? Probably because it was not useful socially, and if you didn’t know, social interfacing is what most necessary for our survival and most of what our lives consist of.
All-around excellent. Thanks, Dr. Barrett!
Very interesting! Thank you for this aspect to open for ourselves!
Excellent explanation 👏
German philosopher Immanuel Kant explored a lot of this in his writings.
He pointed out we are limited to by what our mental apparatus can process. Is that truly reality?
Indian spiritual leader and guru Swami Vivekananda also said on this that reality is subjective experience. He gives example if suddenly humans develope ability to see UV rays (which is a particular spectrum of radiation like colors ) the whole world will seem different to us.
'I have spoken of myself looking outward and of the other people looking at me. Now, the third result of the Christian view of epistemology is this: reality and imagination...I live in a thought world which is filled with creativity; inside my head there is creative imagination. Why? Because God, who is the Creator, has made me in his own image, I can go out in imagination beyond the stars. This is true not only for the Christian, but for evey man. Every man is made in the image of God; therefore, no man in his imagination is confined to his own body. Going out in our imagination, we can change something of the form of the universe as a result of our thought world - in our painting, poetry, or as an engineer, or a gardener. Is that not wonderful? Its is not just a matter of photography, like Antonioni's Blowup - click, click, click. I am there, I am able to impose the results of my imagination on the external world.
..knowing that God made the external world, there is no confusion for me between that which is imaginary and that which is real. The Christian is free; free to fly, because he is not confused between his fantasy and the reality which God has made. So we are not inwardly confused. We are free to say, " This is imagination." Is it not marvelous to be a painter and make things a little different from nature- not just to "photograph" nature but to make things a little different? Is it not wonderful to be made in the image of God and be able to use our creativity in this way? But although this is true, as a Christian I have the epistemology that enables me to not get confused between what I think and what is objectively real. The modern generation does not have this, and this is the reason why some youngsters are all torn up in these areas...' - Francis Schaeffer, He is there and He is not silent, Ch.4 The Epistemological Necessity: The Answer
He said we can never know the thing in itself. There is a thing, but we' can't know it. I am not a scientific realist. Many philosophers aren't.
@@Jan96106 If we can't know the thing in itself how do we know there is one? Kant was a moron.
Is there a longer version of this like that recent video on the nature of Psychopaths? I would love to see it.
My 7yo stepson and I were just talking about how life experience is the reason why I usually know the cause of a sound that's foreign & freighting to him (like the sound of a distant train's movement in the still quiet of the night) and how he's been creating his own mental catalogue of sounds for years.
It's not that I'm inherently *better* at figuring out what things are, my catalogues are just more developed as a result of being 28 years older than he is.
Super cool. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
We all define reality as each of us perceive it, reality exists as it exist. We have no control over reality, as we communicate with others who are also defining reality, we come to a consensus of what reality is.
Some are closer than others. Whoever perceives reality that is closer to the material reality wields the most power.
i agree completely, which means i completely disagree with this lady in the video.
she is speaking of hypothetical theories, of which there is not a single piece of evidence to support the validity of.
you can see how it excites those with other faithful beliefs like religion, or "matrix" believers, with notably unscientific paths of logic
@@ThriftyCHNR, there is nothing closer than the understanding of our inability to perceive reality the way it is
@@ImHeadshotSniper, it's the most accurate worldview according to science lmao
@@truthseeker7815 no it isn't. for one, nothing in any quantum theories suggests that we create the world we see. it moreso suggests that the universe exists, and we have varying types of eyes and ears etc. to collect this information.
secondly, my main point was that no quantum effects have ever yet been observed, therefore no conclusions can be made.
everything quantum currently is all theoretical mathy guesswork, so i'd wait until they make some more definitive conclusions before you go parroting the "everyones own reality is a quantum fabrication" twist of the theory.
to put the theory shortly: it's just a theoretical explanation of the most fundamental physical happenings in the universe. (smaller than atoms, electrons, etc.)
we see atoms, but assume that there are more smaller components which even the electrons etc. are composed of, i.e., "quantum particles".
since we haven't seen them or even know how they might behave, we can't even make 1 conclusion out of it, and especially not some kind of fabricated mental reality theory, as there are other alternative explanations.
it could be the case (and i believe it very likely is), that the universe exists by itself, and the various ways in which we differently perceive it are merely illusions of our differing perceptions.
for example, a colour blind person does not see the same world as a non-colourblind person, but they are both interacting with the same exact world.
Each of our brains form a reality based on how their perceive sensory information. And almost all of it is influenced by our past experiences as our brains love to take shortcuts and make connections quickly.
And our brains are all so different that it’s entirely possible we all see the world in totally different ways. Not just perspective but the colors and sounds we hear
This is definitely one of the best videos I have observed on YT.
The final statement resonates greatly with me.
Wow. I’ve read lots about this issue. Fascinated. You nailed it all in a few minutes.
Reality is not a perception. Reality is the way it is (the truth), independent of our perception or knowledge of it.
"Advaita Vedanta" philosophy
exactly. waste of time video.
false
Which we can never really know or see
@@asloii_1749 incorrect
This video is absolutely fascinating but the comments are comedic genius..thank you
Fairly deep. Thanks for this. Science and Philosophy at its best.
Consciousness is fundamental.
I think this view is correct, and so does Christof koch, Giulio Tonini, Roger Penrose, and Donald Hofman, to name a few top-notch scientists.
@@moderncontemplative see also Bernardo Kastrup - super interesting premise, his notion of consciousness.
@@craigwillms61 thanks!
Everything is waves, and our brain interprets the waves as they hit us via touch, sight, sound, taste, smell as human experiences. Our brain turns the wave patterns into human-relatable sensations primarily interpreted in ways that enhance our survival and reproduction. Our interpretation can have very little to do with the original wave patterns.
Agree. This is how I describe it - Reality is the perception of the interactions of the energy fields in the universe. There are different means to perceive energy fields, so reality is not the same for all perceivers. If there is no perception, the energy fields are in the state of existence/being.
Reality perception with the brain, mind, and sensory perceptions alone will produce a naive realistic view…dwelling on the surface of reality.
Engagement with gut instinct, and the intuitive power of the heart will produce a deeper, more expansive experience of reality…sovereign and
interconnected, a co-creative
being in oneness.
Thanks for helping me gain more insight!
It's great to hear the arguments of someone who has studied the brain for decades!
That’s so right!!
It clearly states that the environment we live in, the people we are around with, the knowledge we are gaining and multiple factors going around us and we are thinking of, will define our interests and likings.
Make yourself around successful and kind people to become one!!
You are deserving of all the good things that life has to offer! ❤🔥
Fantastic Video with a great analogy of Reality. Thank you for this quick video!!
From infancy, there are things that come with us like the heartbeat, sucking milk and swallowing. The rest are things we learn which the brain has to keep and relate to in every situation. Even imagination can only originate from the things the brain is already keeping. This is a gift from our creator with lots of love
that's evolution, not a gift from some magical creator, though I agree with you in everything else you said but that sentence
@@sliverbox271991 if evolution was true then by now we should have evolved into something else or the earth would have moved further away from the sun according to the big bang theory. Can you tell me how your intelligent mind came to be just by chance? We can talk about a lot that evolution can not support or make sense.
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from inside out, the brain creates a model of the physical world
You make a lot of sense. I like listening to you. Thank you!❤
Maybe her brain, as far as ! Understand reality always has 3xisted without no end. My brain is an organ, a mechanism, like a computer. It’s always thinking, analyzing, downloading, remembering, forgetting, and finding out an understanding about the mystery of what’s real, then learning from it. My brain doesn’t creat what’s actually there, like the difference between a human being and a tree, or when touching a hot stove and get burned, for example. “i” am more than a brain and a body. As this vessel gets older, my mind stay young because there is an enormous amount of reality to learn.
*She spent so much time to simply say that our brains rely on MEMORY (i.e data imprints) to form predictive actions based on patterns, and that they also form constructs based on functions to create "social realities."* In effect, ancient vedic teachings have been explicating this for thousands of years in the simplest of ways.
"Create" is such a loaded term. If the brain created reality, then no one would ever starve. Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is still the best (Western) ontological explanation of the re-presentation of reality. Thanks for putting this together!
You have missed the point. Read it as: the brain "creates a model of reality". You must know that is what this statement means. . It could be better stated, I agree.
@@philosophemes Does your brain create a perception of reality or is true reality something completely different from what our senses are registering? A Buddhist is taught that sense reality is illusory and perhaps we can learn something from that way of viewing existence.
@@bodhiapurva3887 Thank you. It's good to think about the Five Aggregates. I wouldn't say "completely different." Good questions. I'd ask these too: Is ultra-violet light real? 100 people a year die from eating poisonous mushrooms, but when they ate them, they believed they weren't poisonous. So, why did they die? There are many people who believe Donald Trump won the last election in the U.S.A Does that mean that he presently has the power of the President of the U.S.A?
I agree. The way the title is phrased is definitely more sensationalist and clickbaity than it is educational, because it equivocates by using the word 'reality' ambiguously.
I can imagine many people reading the title of this video and interpreting it as if there was no good reason to assume that an objective reality exists outside of our brains, but there absolutely is and our brains do not 'create' that reality in any sense, it has nothing to do with us and it's the same whether we're there to perceive it or not.
All this video does is explain that what we sometimes call reality, using the word slightly differently from 'that which exists', is the input from the outside interpreted by our own brains (and in that sense, of course our brains are inherent to the concept of 'reality').
@@jvjjjvvv9157, that's not clickbait, I don't think a majority thought we are gods and our brains indeed create matter
“I’m gonna use a metaphor…”
*explains the literal situation*
Bad editing
Thank you 🙏
its wonderful to learn from this woman
I remember a few years ago, an ex was offended at something silly like South Park or something similar, and I tried to explain to her that being offended at something was *_her_* doing. Yes the subject might be controversial etc but it comes down to whether *_you_* as person *_wants_* to be offended.
Your brain has (rightly or wrongly) reacted to something and the result is taking offence. But we as singular human beings with our own brains can just as easily *switch off* the "I'm now offended" switch.
When people realise (and it's not often that this particular penny ever drops) that THEY decide to make themselves offended on their own, they take back a HUGE amount of control over their psyche.
It’s all just noise anyways. Sometimes I just walk around people pretending I m just walking through a zoo. Human Talking is no different than animal noises that u can’t understand. It’s all just noise
People don't decide to be offended more than they decide to agree with something, or fall in love, or experience loneliness, or anything else. It is a pretty bizarre use of language to frame the concept of being offended as a 'decision'. By taking it just a little bit further, I could smack you in the face and tell you that it is you who decided to feel pain, because it is your brain that interprets the feeling as pain after all. But that would be pretty silly, wouldn't it.
Reality is only that thing which we actually want to feel by heart and mind
People should realize that this brain prediction mechanism that shapes your understanding of the outside world is the same things that shapes who YOU THINK YOU ARE. You are just one of those predictions. A useful tool, but something that completely imprisons your potential and ability to experience freedom.
😊Nicer and Newer way to approach our own brain 🧠 and try to figure out reality vs imagination. Also better not to assume things and avoid being judgmental. 👌✌️
Reality happens and exists Even if Your brain does not work. Or Even if You are sleeping
Reality is all there is left, when any description of it falls into silience.
This is very Zen. Or lacan theory can be similar...
... Wow
I will keep clapping for others until its my turn 🎉🎉
I’m reading this book now and it’s amazing.
We can't know what reality is. We can have theories but we'll never truly know what the underlying reality is. We can only hope to understand social reality.
I strongly disagree. There is a physical reality which we cannot fully experience but we can comprehend it. There are also social realities which means concepts that only exist within societies.
Comprehending physical reality and social realities are entirely different subjects and I'm afraid you're mixing them up.
@PLHarpoon we don't truly comprehend anything. We merely create our own reality with the tiny amount of information our brains can perceive. We have no idea what is real. We are but ants walking on a beach ball. We have no idea what is real. This physical reality you say we know about is an illusion created by our brains. We don't truly know much. We can play the game of life, but we don't know the code (reality), and I speculate it isn't even possible to.
@@PLHarpoon you can comprehend only what you can sense, you will never know if there are other things in this reality you are trying to comprehend that will never evoke in you any sensual information, thus you cant hope to comprehend reality fully.
@@nitzan60 Not true. Simple example: we can comprehend the full light spectrum yet we can sense only a fraction of it.
@@PLHarpoon you are saying that you cant sense the "full" light spectrum because you cant see it, but you do sense it, just not directly, you sense it through its interactions with things that you can sense and by that you can comprehend it. what about things that do not interact with anything you can sense?
note I put in quotes "full", that is because you do not know if what we do know about the light spectrum is indeed all of it, unless you define the spectrum that we know of as the full light spectrum, but then you just defined reality, doesn't mean it is the actual reality.
The Brain fills in the blanks and makes assumptions. Plus there is a delay of sensors input and the time it takes to reach the brain and for the brain to process that info and determine what to do with it. Because of the speed issues sometimes the brain takes shortcut like reflexes. The fear response. This causes us to jump to get out of the way even when there is no real danger.
really good comment
What we perceive with the senses has to be processed by something in the mind. Not just the brain. The best explanation for this comes from German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He believed that the information of the senses is processed by the categories of perception, then processed by the categories of understanding (so that we can understand what we are perceiving), and then processed by the categories of reason when we reflect upon reality and reason about it.
Tom Sisson
I love these kinda thoughts that evoke curiosity
It's interesting how she went on a tangent and completely dodged the question, as if she was saying "if you want the answer, buy my book"
If you want the answers take a long walk off a short dock over shark infested waters
She answered to me
LoL 😂
My past experience is of course very useful but very harmful at times. I categorize things wrong because of my childhood trauma. It’s something I’m trying to be more conscious of and change.
Excellent.
The fact that we can't perceive all wavelengths of light and sound seems an accurate answer to the question.
This is also how Machine Learning (subset of AI) works... loved this.
"This is also how Machine Learning (subset of AI) works... " Yes, minus the attitude.
Your brain is not modeling the world or your body, it is modeling your body’s embeddedness in the world.
It's doing all 3. Otherwise, you'll be disconnected from reality in some way.
@@BillTranmer no, the other two are derivable as internal or external projections of the interface, and the fact that the interface is all you need means nature would most likely optimize for it, rather than two descriptions needing reconciliation.
@@anywallsocket The bigger question is, what do you think happens to a person's consciousness when they die?
@@colinpierre3441 it melts into the aether
@@anywallsocket Ok, but do you believe that there is any way for our consciousness to return if it melts away? In other words, do you believe in a Creator?
That’ a very simplistic view.
I liked your video. It is knowledgeable and enough to make anyone think about the brain and reality.
Brain doesnt detect or create reality. It limits conscious perception of it, like a filter. Aldous Huxley was one (of many) who described it this way, or a similar way, after experiencing certain alternate states of consciousness and coming to that realization. You could liken the brain to a 2-way radio or transceiver. It's a kind of mechanism to specialize conscious experience in a very unique, but ultimately, distorted and/or limited (yet valid) way.
See Bernardo Kastrup to expand on the notion of the brain as a filter. I'm not sure I buy everything he is selling but it is so damn interesting...
Yes, it really sounds like how some people describe the world after NDE or psychedelic experience.
It certainly does detect it.
@@granthurlburt4062 No. Consciousness "detects" it. Without consciousness, brain is just a lump of meat.
I hope everyone watched the same thing and reacted the same way as me
Reality is objective. It can be measured, it is quantifiable and we can prove it with math and science.
once we trust our fundamental interpretations of sensory input, of course
Great lecture
Absolutely disagree with her about the faces. My education is biology, kinesiology, anatomy and physiology. The meaning of faces is rooted in the limbic brain and NOT decided by a collective argument. That's one of the most basic, primal and oldest characteristics of the brain
Yeah, even animals have facial expressions. A smiling dog's expression is unmistakable, for example.
But then…you’re agreeing with her lol The limbic system is the part of the brain involved in our behavioural and emotional responses..which is psychological reactions. But unless you’re talking about our immediate physical reactions in our face? but again, our brain also learns these behaviors over time aka due to our social reality. other than crying (pain/fear) and laughing (surprise/joy) the facial expressions of a baby are quite neutral. However you must have learned that babies brains grow remarkably quickly & they learn emotions very quickly by mimicking agreed emotions in the ones they observe through their mother & father and THEY learned over time through philosophy & society as well through this emotionally responsive area of our brain (limbic)…our social reality.
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New username / nickname for me, thank you
This came to me just on time ♥
Yes thanks dr . . .
I like to think of every aspect of all of my knowledge of reality all at once from subatomic particle physics to modern physics, to Earth's geodynamics, to all of the living organisms from the microbes to the whales including all humans, along with all of their interactions including all humans, our solar system then out to the Milky Way galaxy then out to the edge of the Universe and all of its interactions between, and I like to run it all together from the present back to the big bang and then from the present out to infinity, then I think back to myself reflecting on my reality and I wonder, what exactly is your reality is like.
Word for word you hit the nail on the head. You’re the first I’ve met to share this thinking. Thanks for sharing this.
I can sit and listen to this woman talk for hours
My thoughts put into words. This was perfect🥹🔥
I always appreciate what I've come to call "John Carpenter Reality" it begins to make a lotta sense if, you think about it which you shouldn't ever do
Each person is a unique reality unto themselves. That is what consciousness is.
"Advaita Vedanta" philosophy