Our faulty senses and our brain


We experience the world through our senses, which then feed information to our brain for interpretation.
Different types of information get processed in different manners. Sound gets a different treatment than light for example.
Our brain synthesizes all the stimuli it gets and offers us a representation of the reality around us.
Our senses work collaboratively to create our environment from the information it gets after running it through our filters.
We all have a combination of different filters, some for example are happiness-prone, others are more susceptible to fear and anxiety.
Touch influences vision, smell shapes how things taste and sight is affected by sounds.
As an example, Jasmine tea to people who lost their ability to smell, has no taste.
Our perception is further complicated by the brain's ability to fill in gaps, rationalize and make predictions based on incomplete and sometimes faulty information.
When we walk into a slightly dark room, our visual system perceives darkness, but it also constructs a fabricated scene of what the room looks like by drawing on memory, context and nuances between light, shadows and darkness.
This means that we never truly experience raw sensory data, our brain "guesses" what is happening around us.
Efficiency overrides accuracy which leads our brain 
to create the illusion of continuity even when the data provided by our senses is fragmentary or contradictory.
This is why the world around us appears to be stable even if our eyes are making rapid movements which should normally create discursive jumpy images.

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