Deviate | Beau Lotto | Talks at Google

World-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker Beau Lotto draws on over two decades of research to reveal startling truths about the brain and how it perceives the world. In DEVIATE, Beau answers the long-debated question: do humans see reality or not? Spoiler alert: we don’t. In fact, our brains didn’t – couldn’t! – evolve to see the world accurately. What we see is subjective, not objective. This fundamental revelation shows that everything we know is filtered by each individual’s past experiences. It’s the reason why “dressgate” confounded the world and broke the internet in 2015. Explore that and more in DEVIATE. Get the book here: