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Pascal Wallisch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
95 total appearances

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Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

Like, if you listen to Japanese or Italian.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

So some languages are very Spanish, has a very fast, like, cadence.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

They are put in by your mind.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

There is no objective break between the words.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

This parsing signal comes from you.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

Of course, absolutely.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

Your senses is not there for your viewing pleasure.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

It's there for survival.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

So you survive better than otherwise.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

And if you were sitting around until you have all of the information, until all the sensory information was unambiguous, some other animal would have already eaten your lunch or maybe eaten you.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

And all of your ancestors that that happened to, they're no longer with us.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

They're in a better place now, I guess.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

But you're the offspring of survivors who, the moment they could make a call, they made a call, they acted on it.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

And often, to boost that time-wise, to be faster, you have to put in your own guesses.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

So you basically have to jump to conclusions.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

And the idea is the conclusion can be wrong, but it's better than not to act.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

I'll give an example.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

Let's say you're in the forest, and there is actually a tiger somewhere in the forest.

Today, Explained
Is your brain lying to you?

and you start getting a bad sense of it, maybe you smelled something faint, maybe you saw a little toe of a tiger somewhere, and then you bolted, you left.