Slave to the Sense(s)
Pilgrim Bar
Vaults 14 - 19 Princes Walk
Vic
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144.96939009838286
Is the dress black and blue or white and gold? Depending on the individual, they’re both true. The brain's job is to decide whether what comes in through the senses is useful and combine that with its ongoing activity; the outcome is the world you experience moment by moment and it is unique to you. Understanding how the brain relies on the natural environment for stimuli might suggest that our expectations may be leading us to the wrong conclusions. Simon Cropper will recontextualise the brain as part of the natural environment and examine the assumptions and expectations we have about how the brain works.
