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Seth Lloyd or another cognitive scientist—though the passage doesn’t specify] explains that our perception of reality is like a “controlled hallucination.” Our brains don’t passively record the world; instead, they predict it using prior knowledge and experiences, and the senses mainly serve to correct errors in these predictions. This system evolved because prediction is faster and more energy-efficient than reconstructing reality from scratch. Even novel experiences feel immediate because the brain relies on universal patterns and fills in gaps, making the hallucination seem seamless.
In short: we experience a predictive simulation of reality, constantly corrected by sensory input, rather than a direct copy of the world.
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