David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion

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6 hours ago, semente said:

Great interview on the BBC's "Life Scientific" radio programme this morning:

 

 

David Eagleman on why reality is an illusion

 

Literature student turned neuroscientist, Prof David Eagleman, tells Jim Al-Khalili about his research on human perception and the wristband he created that enables deaf people to hear through their skin.

Everything we see, taste, smell, touch and hear is created by a set of electro-chemical impulses in the dark recesses of our brain.

Our brains look for patterns in these signals and attach meaning to them.

So in future perhaps we could learn to ‘feel’ fluctuations in the stock market, see in infra-red or echo-locate like bats?

Each brain creates its own unique truth and David believes, there are no real limits to what we humans can perceive.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zlqc

 

 

I am going to run this by my psychic.