{"id":171517,"date":"2023-09-07T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/reality-is-constructed-by-your-brain-heres-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters"},"modified":"2023-09-07T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:25:12","slug":"reality-is-constructed-by-your-brain-heres-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/reality-is-constructed-by-your-brain-heres-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReality\u201d is constructed by your brain. Here\u2019s what that means, and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reality-is-constructed-by-your-brain-heres-what-that-means-and-why-it-matters.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2020 The ecology of the human brain is so complex that it even seems like it\u2019s own not only story within itself but also could be like a self perpetuating universe of all sorts. Even neurons resemble the universe. What I believe is that the human brain is actually like an infinite spaceship that has infinite potential not only as a computational source but as sentience that is actual sentient in itself not just a story but kinda the god in the machine like a black box of limitless potential not only a computer but much more possibly a universe that guides us and shapes us. Even when we see the ecology of the mind we see so many stories and realities able to create its own multiverse\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What the science of visual illusions can teach us about our polarized world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2020 The ecology of the human brain is so complex that it even seems like it\u2019s own not only story within itself but also could be like a self perpetuating universe of all sorts. Even neurons resemble the universe. What I believe is that the human brain is actually like an infinite spaceship that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,47,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}