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the brain's best guess about reality, served confidently as truth
means The process of becoming aware of and interpreting something through the senses, or the way you understand or regard it.
from From Latin 'perceptio,' meaning 'a gathering, a taking in,' built from 'percipere' — 'per-' (thoroughly) plus 'capere' (to seize, to grasp). So at root, to perceive is to thoroughly seize a thing with the mind. It reached English through Old French in the late medieval period, and the same 'capere' that grasps here also lurks in 'capture,' 'capable,' and 'receive.'
- prediction engine
- the brain hallucinates the world, then corrects with the senses
- blind spot
- your eyes have holes your mind quietly fills in
- color is fake
- wavelengths exist; color is invented inside your skull
- taste tricks
- smell and color heavily change what you think you taste
- time bends
- fear and focus stretch how long moments seem to last
for instance
adelson's checkered shadow — 1995 illusion where two squares appear different shades despite being the same gray value