{"id":179067,"date":"2023-12-25T04:25:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/your-brain-doesnt-detect-reality-it-creates-it-lisa-feldman-barrett"},"modified":"2023-12-25T04:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T10:25:06","slug":"your-brain-doesnt-detect-reality-it-creates-it-lisa-feldman-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/your-brain-doesnt-detect-reality-it-creates-it-lisa-feldman-barrett","title":{"rendered":"Your brain doesn\u2019t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikvrwOnay3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This interview is an episode from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The\">@The<\/a>-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnTempletonFoundation\">@JohnTempletonFoundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Lisa Feldman Barrett\u2019s next interview \u25ba \u2022 The biggest myths about emotions, deb\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain\u2019s interpretation of these signals. This interpretation is influenced by past experiences and is often predictive, with the brain creating categories of similar instances to anticipate future events.<\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s categorization process extends beyond physical characteristics to include abstract, functional features. This ability allows humans to create \u201csocial reality,\u201d where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don\u2019t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s capacity for imagination, drawing from past experiences to create something entirely new, is a double-edged sword. While it allows for creativity and innovation, it can also lead to difficulties in staying present.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 The debate over reality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/your-brain-doesnt-detect-reality-it-creates-it-lisa-feldman-barrett\">Continue reading \u201cYour brain doesn\u2019t detect reality. It creates it. | Lisa Feldman Barrett\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview is an episode from @The-Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the @JohnTempletonFoundation. Watch Lisa Feldman Barrett\u2019s next interview \u25ba \u2022 The biggest myths about emotions, deb\u2026 Our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth but rather a combination of sensory inputs and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179067","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}