PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Alcohol By Volume, Wine Tasting
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Reality is a story told to us by our brains in the brain by understanding this we can improve. We don"t live in the real world but in a constructed representation. This construction process involved interpreting patterns if sensory info with ore-existing patterns stored. We regularly make errors in this construction process and there are systematic ways in which we do so, Our experiences do not reflect reality itself" but rather a construction or representation of reality: this construction process involves a lot of guesswork filling in the gaps", this subjective representation occurs within the brain. Mess with someone"s brain and mess with their consciousness, i. e drugs, thus brain function is realy important for mind function. We only have access to a limited subset of reality: The sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms ( other animals hear and smell things that we cant)
