PSY100H1 Final: Topic 1 - Fundamental Insights
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Fundamental insights: reality is a story, told to us by our brains. 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. We only have access to a limited subset of reality. The limitations of our sensory-perceptual system are due to: Perception is a process of creative story- telling and inference making. We have to fill in a lot of gaps. But this means that we are not directly interacting with reality, but rather, we are creating a fiction about reality, and we hope it"s a pretty close match. It is as though our brains look for a correspondence between patterns that have been stored in it through our past experience, and the patterns of sensory stimuli it is currently experiencing. The brain uses its pre-existing patterns (i. e. ,
