Earlier we have seen that our brains didn’t evolve to see reality, since that would be impossible; and thus they brilliantly “make sense” out of the senseless. Now we have a physiological, brain-based explanation for why only certain perceptions are likely to occur (and why even fewer actually do). Here is where we hit the problem: If everything you do—indeed who you are—is grounded in your assumptions; and if your assumptions represent your personal, developmental, evolutionary, and cultural history of interacting with your external and internal environments (i.e., what I call your ecology);
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