Your brain is very good at managing cognitive dissonance. Arguably, it’s your brain’s main purpose. Your senses absorb a calamitous frenzy of information every moment you’re conscious, and your brain has to streamline it all into coherence so that you can function. It lets you focus, shunts unnecessary stimuli to the periphery, and parses huge gulps of perceptual data with dazzling heuristic tricks.
