Your brain doesn't detect reality. It creates it. Lisa Feldman Barrett

[Uncle Joe]

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.

[erronis]

1. Thanks - looking forward to this. I just question "Whose 'reality'?" The alternate facts people or us real people?

[Uncle Joe]

3. I was thinking of Bush the Least's supposed "brain's" quote

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Karl Rove

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Title exhibits false dichotomy flaw to arrive at an attention-getting statement

It is not either-or "real" or "perception only". Of course our electro-mechanical-chemical systems are limited and imperfect, along with our "software" analog: reasoning and thinking.

However, usefully the video may help many people who go around as if the things they think are true because they think clearly and see clearly when they have ordinary human deficits in those abilities. Many people don't introspect much if at all.

(have not watched, thank you for the summary)

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I suspect it's a process that is influenced by

A person’s tendency to lean toward deductive or inductive reasoning.