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Your brain predicts what you see before you actually see it.
The predictive processing model suggests your brain creates a mental model of reality and updates it with sensory error signals.
Instead of passively receiving information, your brain constantly guesses the next sensory state. You only become consciously aware of stimuli when reality deviates from your internal prediction. We do not experience the world as it is, but as our models suggest it should be.
You are usually experiencing a hallucination checked by reality.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Friston, 2010, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- What the check found
- The claim accurately describes the core thesis of Friston's predictive processing/free-energy principle. The absence of a quote reflects the lack of supporting text in the provided materials, not the validity of the claim.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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