The Trick the Brain Plays on Itself
Your brain makes stuff up.
Constantly. Beautifully. Before you notice.
Prediction comes before perception. Bias comes before reasoning. The story is al
Prediction comes before perception.
Bias comes before reasoning.
The story is already written
by the time the eye catches up.
You are not seeing the world. You are seeing your best guess of it, corrected in small pieces by what actually arrives.
The machines do this too.
We call it *hallucination* when they do it.
When you do it, we call it
*being a person*.
Here is the grown-up move:
Stop pretending you have a direct line.
Stop being surprised that the machine confabulates.
It inherited the flaw
from the cognitive architecture
it was trained to resemble.
Get curious about the flaw. That is the beginning of an honest practice.
