Some neuroscientists, like MIT’s Tomasso Poggio, think of the entire way our brains process information as being through a series of approximations. This is why it is so crucial to develop a better understanding of ourselves, and the way we distort and interpret the signals we receive, if we want to make better predictions. The first half of this book has largely been concerned with where these approximations have been serving us well and where they’ve been failing us.
