Brighton Café Scientifique – Experience Machines: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Wagner HallHuman brains are nature’s own ‘prediction machines’ - evolved organs that are constantly trying to predict flows of sensation, both from within our own body and from the wider world. This casts perception and feeling as forms of ‘controlled hallucination’ in which raw sensory information delivers experience only relative to our brain’s best predictions. These […]