Your brain is a machine of sorts that builds a model of the world by throwing away most of its sensory input. I’m about to explain this in more detail, but it has a troubling takeaway: The way you see the world is a lie. Your senses and your brain work together to produce a false narrative about reality to your consciousness—a false narrative without which you would be unable to function. You take in a truly staggering amount of sensory information, far more than you could ever process, and your brain manages this overload by tossing out anything unrelated to your survival and creating a
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