Your Brain Is Lying To You Right Now. And You Can’t Stop It

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[00:00:00]40% of everything you see right now is fake. Your brain invented it, and there's nothing you can do about it.

[00:00:05]Your eyes are not cameras. They capture incomplete low-resolution data and send it to your brain, full of gaps, full of blind spots. So, your brain does something terrifying. It fills in the gaps automatically, instantly, without asking you. It takes what it expects to see, based on past experience, and invents the rest.

[00:00:27]That means right now, as you watch this, up to 40% of your visual reality is a prediction, a guess, a construction, not reality. This is why eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Two people witness the same event and describe completely different things.

[00:00:44]Neither is lying. Both brains invented different versions of the same moment.

[00:00:49]It's why optical illusions work. Your brain is so committed to its own story that it refuses to see what's actually there. You have never seen the world as it truly is. Nobody has. Follow for more.