{"id":225699,"date":"2025-11-23T01:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/your-brain-is-a-simulation-machine"},"modified":"2025-11-23T01:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:17:21","slug":"your-brain-is-a-simulation-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/your-brain-is-a-simulation-machine","title":{"rendered":"Your brain is a simulation machine"},"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\/x2hfGGRfzJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I recently read \u201cA Brief History of Intelligence\u201d by Max Bennett \u2014 and I highly recommend you check it out \u2014 it\u2019s an absolutely brilliant book! I will be having a few conversations with Max but for now here is a taster from our first chat about how our brain works like a simulation machine. You can buy his book from Amazon \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3weN3uS\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3weN3uS<\/a> Watch behind the scenes, get early access and join the private Discord by supporting us on Patreon. We have some amazing content going up there with Kenneth Stanley this week! Listen to this entire conversation now (Simulations chapter) on Patreon: <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ max-bennett-of-1\u201397975425 Watch part 2 (Mentalizing chapter) on Patreon \u2014 <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ max-bennett-of-2\u201398181787 Watch part 3 (Language) here <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ max-bennett-3\u20130-100006225 <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ mlst (public discord) <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ discord <img alt=\"\" class=\"\"> \/ mlstreettalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read \u201cA Brief History of Intelligence\u201d by Max Bennett \u2014 and I highly recommend you check it out \u2014 it\u2019s an absolutely brilliant book! I will be having a few conversations with Max but for now here is a taster from our first chat about how our brain works like a simulation machine. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225699","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}