Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.
All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.
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