How to look beyond the fixed self and choose who you are | Paul Vincent

[Applause] You're not actually looking at me right now. What you're seeing is your brain's best guess. Your eyes aren't windows that you're looking through.What's happening is far stranger. Your brain takes millions of sensory signals, filters them through your memories, beliefs, and expectations, and then renders its version of the external world. What you're seeing is an internal image.This is what neuroscientists call the active inference model of the brain. But here's where it gets even more strange. It ...