Dr. Poppy Crum

And we can break that down into a lot of different ways.

In any case, we are the products of our sensory systems, our priors, which are the statistics and data we've had up until that moment that our brain's using to weight how it's going to behave and the decisions it makes, but also then our expectations, the context of that that have shaped where we are.

And so there's this funny story.

Like my daughter, when she was two and a half, we're in the planetarium.

at the Smithsonian, and we're watching, I think, one typical film you might watch in a planetarium.

We started in L.A., zoom out on our way to the sun, and we passed that sort of, you know, quintessential NASA image of the Earth.

And it's totally dark and silent, and my daughter, as loud as she possibly could, yells, Minions.

What's going on?

I'm like, oh, yes, of course.

Her experientially established prior of that image is coming from the Universal logo.

And, you know, she never, you know, that says universal.

Yeah, no, I love it.

It was totally valid.

But it was this very, you know, honest and true part of what it is to be human.

Like each of us is experiencing very different, you know, having very different experiences of the same physical information.

And we need to recognize that.

But it is driven by our exposures and our priors and our sensory systems.

It's sort of that trifecta.

and our expectations at the moment.

And once you unpack that, you really start to understand and appreciate the influence of technology.