How your brain creates reality | Lisa Feldman Barrett

[@daemon9737]

Dr. Barrett is awesome. Love the explanations and insights. Fascinating stuff.

[@The-Well]

We agree! Thanks for watching!

[@DieselGlori]

Agreed. I’m an LCSW and i find her explanations so helpful for myself and clients. Accessible, nerdy rich, but also empowering/actionable. Wildly succinct too all things considered

[@doggbloodz9640]

@@The-Wellcould you please make a playlist of all your uplods?

[@mileschuu]

More Lisa Feldman!!!!!

[@DieselGlori]

AGREED.

[@avonsternen6034]

Interesting summary of Skinner's behaviorist materialist black box assumptions and approach. Nevertheless, note as well that nothing living including the human brain is ever completely isolated. "Reality" is effected by potential beyond the spectrum of human perception and sensation. For example, with spectrums of light and sound, various forms of life perceive, interpret and interact differently and with different ranges. 👍:)

[@mikayugu316]

I want her thoughts about intuition or gut feeling. I love Lisa Barrett's explanations.

[@The-Well]

We have three other videos with Lisa Feldman Barrett! You can check them out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZoLJdKl_f7ene5I&pp=iAQB

[@ChrisCYVR]

Amazing. I want to see more content like this! An absolutely fascinating field of study.

[@The-Well]

Noted! Thanks for watching!

[@ArunKumarMalaysia]

The concept of attaching a function to things is similar to functional contextualism, which is related to Relational Frame Theory, which is the core theory of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy :)

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Thanks for the nice take on the topic

[@ChonaXaaa]

This is the kind of philosophical problem that is actually linguistical. The dispute she refers to is directly dependant of the definition of reality each position uses. Reading Wittgenstein is free

[@Punicia]

A powerfully concise video on this topic! Maybe all of human history up to this point has been one long procession into defining what we now know as "reality." War, genocide, and variations in sociopolitical dogma might all just be the effects of differences in how people perceive reality. I think it all boils down to what your brain is willing to consider "real" at a stable, symmetrical level.

[@noompsieOG]

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[@charlesbrightman4237]

LANGUAGE: Consider the following: Language, the very thing we utilize to think thoughts and convey ideas. Un-named Concepts -> Given a Name (could be a sound, symbol, etc) -> With an attached meaning -> And maybe even other meanings depending upon context -> And maybe even other names with the same meaning. (Basically a Dictionary and a Thesaurus for a language). BUT: a. How exactly do we know for 100% certainty that we have all the un-named concepts that could ever be named? b. How exactly do we know for 100% certainty that the meanings we give named concepts are 100% correct? We truly do not know what we do not know. This is a part of the 'Great Unknown'. Never stop learning. (Always have an 'unknown' in every analysis and an 'oops' in every experiment.) Of which, an entity or a society of entities: 1. Can name their own un-named concepts. 2. Can give their own meanings to named concepts. 3. Can have alternative meanings to named concepts depending upon context. 4. Can have alternative names with the same meaning. (Basically, create their own language that only they and they alone know). Learn to function in the 'Great Unknown'.

[@renegroulx7029]

Im gonna proceed to watch this entire channel.

[@M8ze879]

Love this wisdom!

[@The-Well]

We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

[@JustWojtek]

I feel like we need a better definition for reality ... assuming that "reality" is what we "objectively measure in the physical world" is to reduce reality to our perceptions, which ultimately are translated into thoughts. It get's a bit messy once you try to tell apart our "abstract" ideas from the "physical" ones since ultimately they are all products of our minds - in one way or another.

[@chimaosx]

basically the category of "reality" can't trully be achieved. it's more like "shared and agreed upon perceptions"

[@MightyBrend]

I tend to think of the 'reality' we live in and the actuality we inhabit. One is malleable and we experience, the other we have limited to no access to

[@lordbunbury]

You guys need to read some Kant.

[@notmyrealpseudonym6702]

​@@lordbunburymy thoughts as well

[@lakshmisharma3412]

Reality means the complete description of an event

[@sammierankin1783]

Thanks You

[@sjoerd1239]

We experience the world the way it is sufficiently to interact with the world to some degree. The brain is not in a silent box. It has sensory inputs. The brain is not just making predictions. It is making interpretations, which are not the same thing. The brain creates a model of the world, which includes the body of which the brain is a part. It does not do that completely from scratch. It inherits some innate ability as a foundation. When its interpretation of its sensory inputs or predictions do not align with experience or impede its ability to interact with the world, the brain needs to update its understanding (model) of the world.

[@L5biszz]

I heard about this many times. But I was only able to understand it fully when I heard Donal Trump talk. Only then i understood that each of us hallucinates our own reality. So close yet, so far 😂😂😂😂😂...sometimes.

[@floepiejane]

Strawman: the brain doesn't know what's going on around it ... Yes, it does; that's what it does. If you remove a piece of skull, will the brain suddenly know what's going on around it? Absurd. Another one, but related: of course we all interpret reality for ourselves, and we don't have omniscience, but that still doesn't mean we don't know reality. We don't need to know the source of the explosion to know we heard a bang. The source of the bang is just knowledge refinement.

[@floepiejane]

Yeah, these are metaphysical arguments. No thank you.

[@adibmohareri1223]

So it doesnt make any difference to you if a bang is just a baloon poping or a gun firing? You just run anyways?

[@floepiejane]

@@adibmohareri1223 of course that's important, but it's secondary to the bang, which did it job alerting us.

[@ellena0893]

In every moment of our life we are creating our most appropriate variantes of “reality” based on our past experiences. Therefore, how can we know what is the reality, if we, as human beings, we have a different past experiences and also different reactions to the same kind of experience?

[@nodozhit]

We're just chroniclers of the consensus on our collective consciousness.

[@tauhid9983]

It doesn't just stop at experiences and sensory input... Imagine our fundamental principles of the universe... our brain interprets and processes these with the constraints of time and space. What is reality beyond these constraints? Is there more beyond what the brain experience or project?

[@anshanshtiwari8898]

Guys let's help him get sound proofing for his studio.

[@NiaRielCer]

I feel like I'm always living in an illusion

[@JuliaPonomarenko]

What else, except past experience, helps us to guess the cause based on the outcome?

[@grecology]

Amazing. Hume V Kant photo finish

[@adhdself-love]

Only if you ca make sense of the pixels 😋

[@lorenzoplaserrano8734]

i loveeed this one

[@alistairwilliams9885]

Sadly there was no mention of, consciousness of our hearts ✨in conjunction with our brains?

[@Stappit]

Anchoring

[@k00lkane]

Social constructionism 101. Not particularly insightful. Her lab operates under the assumption that all psychological constructs are social constructs, which is true. But a good psychological construct is true irrespective of our naming or categorisation of such. The examples she was using was human emotion. Now, we recognise fear as a meaningful category hence we label it fear, but irrespective of how you label it the underlying neuro chemical/neurological reaction that represents fear occurs in situations that warrant it because fear as implicit, survival value - hence the construction of fear is not just a category that makes sense to those who label it, it exists despite us labelling it.

[@JustWojtek]

but it wouldn't make much less sense without labelling it. That's the point she is making (I think). If you just have an ambiguous feeling you don't know what to do with, that's not particularly helpful. If you have an ambiguous feeling you always react to in the same way, leaving it unobserved and unnamed won't be particularly helpful in reframing its meaning and changing your reaction. An calling something "socially real" doesn't chip away it's meaning, it's still real, it just doesn't exist as such a framed concept in fundamental reality.

[@k00lkane]

@@JustWojtek Yes, that makes sense. You’re describing soft social constructionism which adds to our understanding of reality. It’s hard social constructionism that is utter nonsense.

[@adibmohareri1223]

This has nothing to do with social constructivism. You can search the predictive coding theory, it tries to explain human cognition.

[@OhHIricO]

My social reality is nonexistent

[@philip6770]

If our brain creates reality, then it is more accurate to say that our brain creates an illusion, because everyone perceives reality differently. There must be one and only one true reality that is consistent with what we all observe. Before we ask what reality is, we must ask where it all began, because reality must have been created. But by whom? Who created us? How did we come into existence? Just like in the story of Adam and Eve, once a person denies God and goes their own way, they start creating their own reality based on experiences and other people's influences on each other. This eventually gets them into a big mess, like what we have done to ourselves and the world now.

[@oscarcazarez2227]

So your reality is your 🧠 best guess based on your experience...🎉😮

[@adellyjosefina]

That raises the question: what does it really mean to be in the present?

[@oscarcazarez2227]

@adellyjosefina to me it means to not have an expectation of an outcome & no preconceived idea of an outcome. Trying hard not to remember any real detail of the now, I guess. That's a tough question 🤔 I think as a conscience being we have to settle with the concept that there are things we will never know & on to the next idea 💡. Any thoughts?

[@ElkoJohn]

- How does the brain create the Hologram Inside the Mind that displays the outside world to my conscious awareness? - Do we all have this same fabricated Hologram Inside the Mind?

[@playesteban]

So basically life has no meaning, but we do, so it does have one

[@romiagua2746]

É tudo muito simples, real tem forma, peso textura etc etc etc. Ireal não tem essas características.

[@rubeng9092]

"The Brain creates a model and constructs categories" no. The brain just fires neurons. Its a physical thing, categories aren't physical.

[@adibmohareri1223]

So you thought of this sentence just by firing the neurons in your brain?

[@rubeng9092]

@@adibmohareri1223 My brain did the firing, I did the thinking. I used both language and my brain for it. But I was the one who did it, not Mr.grey matter.

[@Yuvraj.]

@@rubeng9092that’s your ego speaking, but the “you” that’s inside your head is downstream of your brain doing a whole lot of information processing before you ever have a chance to think a thought.

[@rubeng9092]

@@Yuvraj. I am not denying that I need my brain to articulate thoughts. But those thoughts are not directly produced by my brain, there is not a single brain state that maps onto this or that thought, because thoughts themselves are a entities in a network of linguistic reference. You cannot make someone think of the Eiffeltower, if they never heard of it in their entire life, no matter what you do to their brains. Meaning isn't stored in neurons, but in propositions.

[@beginmoves]

Neural circuitry and Neural networks … pathways of electrical chemical impulses that connect to construct networks based on experiences. These networks are like categories or associations which give meaning to our unique sensory input internally and externally which we interpret based on predicting our needs for survival. This impacts our perception at a conscious and subconscious levels. I agree our brains don’t know anything, but we are more than our brain we are our experiences. We get to choose how we experience our experiences through self awareness. Know thyself.

[@adhdself-love]

For everyone who jumps the gun and comments before 5:26, I suggest you click here before you allow us the pleasure of constructing for ourselves a supposition based on our past encounters with people who jump the gun, allowing us the ease of maintaining our allostatasis, of how much of a fool you are in actuality.

[@ParanoidGoblinoid]

Philosophy FTW

[@3coins.]

Your brain can leave a mark from trauma.

[@grantbartley483]

Well, your brain doesn't create reality, it creates a representation of reality for your mind. Unless we're talking QM, reality exists independent of your mind. I wish people would not be so inexact about such crucial concepts, especially when they're trying to be profound.

[@henrygonzales9666]

Buddhists knew this hundreds of years ago.

[@ParanoidGoblinoid]

2:03 Trigger warning: gun shot

[@philsophkenny]

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[@learnmeu3255]

How can I limit my daydreaming

[@BulentBasaran]

Informative little talk, but, why does she keep referring to the "mind" as the "brain?" Imagination is what happens in our minds. The brain, the physical and complicated machine that it is, still is just a piece of hardware and seems to help facilitate and run the "software" we, since John Locke, call the "mind", but, we don't really know how the mind and the brain (in fact the whole body) relate. Neurologists study the brain. A psychologist by definition studies the psyche, the greek word for all things mental. So, this researcher who studies the mind better call it the mind.

[@tommyjohnson8016]

So the brain is it's own animal.

[@maxasaurus3008]

😳🤯🔥

[@kdm313]

That told me nothing

[@psicologa]

🎉

[@ryder1658]

All or nothing thinking. You don’t experience reality 100% accurately, but not 0% either. If our experience was too inaccurate, we would die out. We perceive things and process information accurately. Enough of this.

[@davidtrindle6473]

The brain is not “trapped” in the box of self. This is a very bad metaphor. The brain creates the illusion of “self” just as it creates the world as we see it. We have no idea what “reality” actually might be.

[@michaelmccain7245]

Agreed, a terrible metaphor considering that the eyes, which arent fully protected by the skull, are an extension of the brain itself. Another thing is that the speaker in the video talks about many abstract concepts like social constructs but conveniently ignores physical realities that are coherent with objective reality. An example would be the millions of vehicles we see on the roads covering our Earth. These vehicles wouldn’t be able to operate and humans wouldn’t be able to maneuver them through physical reality if our brains didn’t comprehend objective reality. So all in all, yes abstract thoughts aren’t “reality” but our brains still do a good job of interpreting objective reality.

[@Evan102030]

In the literal, physical sense it's true. A calcium vessel containing electrical porridge. Like.. what?

[@LeanAndMean44]

That is literally the entire point she made.

[@JustWojtek]

that's confusing the brain with the mind and confusing the mind with it's many meanings among which are consciousness and awareness ... physically speaking the brain is trapped in a box aka the skull. What the mind does is a whole different matter - pun intended (metaphysics) - and no: it's most probably not completely divorced from what's out there.

[@davidtrindle6473]

@MarkoStev they said the brain was locked in the box of self

[@stoonookw]

Imagine explaining everything like how she did with the brain--your bones are locked inside your skin and can't get out. Everything is trapped inside of you lol! I mean it's a fundamental concept that everyone understands, but it doesn't take a PHD in philosophy or neuroscience to grasp that concept.

[@MultiMagnumforce]

What about no Free Will ?

[@zes7215]

wrg

[@bryanchannell7715]

Realty is ur assuming perspective, but on one way it's all false , bc without humans there is no reality, some people are egotistical and some people without an ego realize I am who you say I am and those too can be blind of each other but it's a paradox and if we all love each other we have the same realty but when people don't love each other we don't have the same realities

[@truptiraut3017]

FIRST

[@mahakala]

one needs to read ramana maharshi for the ultimate answer.

[@massimookissed1023]

Yeah,.. tulips don't smell very nice.

[@romoloborra]

Let philosophers do philosophy…

[@shawonhasnat7105]

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