Neil deGrasse Tyson / StarTalk on the Science of Perception: How We Make Sense of the World

Ever wondered how we make sense of the world around us when our brains are locked inside a dark, silent skull? 🧠 Neil deGrasse Tyson and his panel explore the fascinating concept of perception—how we interpret unstructured data from our sensory organs and turn it into our experience of reality. From Plato to Helmholtz, discover the science behind “unconscious inference” and how it shapes our understanding of the universe! 🌠 Dive into the mysteries of the mind and perception! 🌍

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I hope certain voters meditate on this. As the singer Nilsson said on his album, The Point, "You see what you wanna see, and you hear....what you wanna hear." Past that, check out the book, Proust Was Neuroscientist. Besides correlating how artists like Proust, Stravinsky, Gertrude Stein, Paul Cezanne and Walt Whitman were creating art that later discoveries in neuroscience displayed. An example, if I can express it here is, the abstraction of a perception. Cezanne's paintings are representations of observations of reality. incomplete forms suggesting real forms. Much later after his death scientists discovered there were more neurons going from the brain to the eye than from the eye to the brain.
This development allowed recognition to take place before the full image was processed by the brain. Very handy in crisis moments requiring self defense. Savvy?