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Brain Reportedly Just Making Stuff Up This Whole Time

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Brain Reportedly Just Making Stuff Up This Whole Time

Your brain isn't showing you the world so much as guessing at it. That's the argument from psychologist Daniel Yon , who runs the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. The brain, Yon writes, works "like a scientist," constantly forming hypotheses about what's out…

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