Reality is a Controlled Hallucination

Modern neuroscience suggests that we don’t perceive reality directly, i.e. the reality we observe is not a projection of the material world, but rather a projection of our own minds. Predictive processing states that our brain functions like a prediction machine, constantly predicting what it’ll observe next and only adjusting its model of the world when its predictions don’t agree with the sensory input it receives. In this video, I tried to explain this concept as well as I could in about 10 minutes. I feel like I didn’t really explain the last part about psychedelics all that well, so here is the study from which I pulled the information: (Corlett et al. 2009, From drugs to deprivation: a Bayesian framework for understanding models of psychosis) They don’t directly reference psilocybin though. They refer to serotonergic compounds. Chapters 00:00 What you see is not “real“ 01:41 Predictive processing 0