Jan
31
perception may best be seen as what has sometimes been described as a process of “controlled hallucination” …in which we (or rather, various parts of our brains) try to predict what is out there, using the incoming signal more as a means of tuning and nuancing the predictions rather than as a rich (and bandwidth-costly) encoding of the state of the world.
Deric Bownds’ MindBlog: Our Thrifty Brains.