How your brain creates reality | Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Your social reality isn’t an absolute reality. A leading neuroscientist explains why.
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Our perception of reality is not an exact representation of the objective truth but rather a combination of sensory inputs and the brain’s interpretation of these signals. This interpretation is influenced by past experiences and is often predictive, with the brain creating categories of similar instances to anticipate future events.
The brain’s categorization process extends beyond physical characteristics to include abstract, functional features. This ability allows humans to create “social reality,” where we collectively assign functions or meanings to objects or concepts that don’t inherently possess them, such as the value of money or the concept of borders and citizenship.
The brain’s capacity for imagination, drawing from past experiences to create something entirely new, is a double-edged sword. While it allows for creativity and innovation, it can also lead to difficulties in staying present.
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  • @TheAnswerHub
    @TheAnswerHub11 ай бұрын

    When we’ve been imprinted with patterns of trauma it becomes all too normal for the brain to look for patterns of that similar trauma within our daily lives.

  • @AiNEntertainment101

    @AiNEntertainment101

    10 ай бұрын

    ...that's #true. Traumatic experiences are absolutely natural, normal AND necessary, though. They trigger transformative processes, which teach us a lot. These transformations couldn't happen otherwise and, therefore, have been a crucial part of our evolution. I'm not a fan of the one-sided way trauma is often described and referred to, nowadays. If we can't prevent it, I highly recommend we embrace it and "take up the gauntlet" for that challenge. To all the people reading this, who are struggling with traumatic experiences they haven't been able to properly integrate, yet: Get on it. You can get out of it. On the other side, there is more worth living for than you can imagine right now.

  • @breal7277

    @breal7277

    10 ай бұрын

    @@AiNEntertainment101 HOW?

  • @AiNEntertainment101

    @AiNEntertainment101

    8 ай бұрын

    @@breal7277 ...sorry, I missed your reply. What exactly do you mean with "How?" If somebody actually has no idea yet, I usually start with "Evolution = Memory + Predictions + Learning". The next step covers the most important fundamentals of psychology + sociology. From there, we need to deal & negotiate with ourselves to find out what we wanna do with our lives. #hope #goals #growth

  • @breal7277

    @breal7277

    8 ай бұрын

    Beats me. I've been off line for a while and I don't remember. LOL. Sorry, it was a dumb question.@@AiNEntertainment101

  • @Stefan69whatever

    @Stefan69whatever

    5 ай бұрын

    Check out Gabor Mate, Bessel van Der kolk

  • @ChonaXaaa
    @ChonaXaaa11 ай бұрын

    This is the kind of philosophical problem that is actually linguistical. The dispute she refers to is directly dependant of the definition of reality each position uses. Reading Wittgenstein is free

  • @avonsternen6034
    @avonsternen603411 ай бұрын

    Interesting summary of Skinner's behaviorist materialist black box assumptions and approach. Nevertheless, note as well that nothing living including the human brain is ever completely isolated. "Reality" is effected by potential beyond the spectrum of human perception and sensation. For example, with spectrums of light and sound, various forms of life perceive, interpret and interact differently and with different ranges. 👍:)

  • @daemon9737
    @daemon973711 ай бұрын

    Dr. Barrett is awesome. Love the explanations and insights. Fascinating stuff.

  • @The-Well

    @The-Well

    11 ай бұрын

    We agree! Thanks for watching!

  • @DieselGlori

    @DieselGlori

    11 ай бұрын

    Agreed. I’m an LCSW and i find her explanations so helpful for myself and clients. Accessible, nerdy rich, but also empowering/actionable. Wildly succinct too all things considered

  • @doggbloodz9640

    @doggbloodz9640

    11 ай бұрын

    @@The-Wellcould you please make a playlist of all your uplods?

  • @milesklein683
    @milesklein68311 ай бұрын

    More Lisa Feldman!!!!!

  • @DieselGlori

    @DieselGlori

    11 ай бұрын

    AGREED.

  • @ArunKumarMalaysia
    @ArunKumarMalaysia11 ай бұрын

    The concept of attaching a function to things is similar to functional contextualism, which is related to Relational Frame Theory, which is the core theory of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy :)

  • @prapanthebachelorette6803

    @prapanthebachelorette6803

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the nice take on the topic

  • @mikayugu316
    @mikayugu31611 ай бұрын

    I want her thoughts about intuition or gut feeling. I love Lisa Barrett's explanations.

  • @The-Well

    @The-Well

    11 ай бұрын

    We have three other videos with Lisa Feldman Barrett! You can check them out here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/YoWapdiCerXadZM.html&pp=iAQB

  • @ChrisCYVR
    @ChrisCYVR11 ай бұрын

    Amazing. I want to see more content like this! An absolutely fascinating field of study.

  • @The-Well

    @The-Well

    11 ай бұрын

    Noted! Thanks for watching!

  • @Punicia
    @Punicia9 ай бұрын

    A powerfully concise video on this topic! Maybe all of human history up to this point has been one long procession into defining what we now know as "reality." War, genocide, and variations in sociopolitical dogma might all just be the effects of differences in how people perceive reality. I think it all boils down to what your brain is willing to consider "real" at a stable, symmetrical level.

  • @noompsieOG

    @noompsieOG

    2 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/e4KkubCJZau2frQ.htmlsi=lu2NCfE-gHzs-ULX

  • @M8ze879
    @M8ze87911 ай бұрын

    Love this wisdom!

  • @The-Well

    @The-Well

    11 ай бұрын

    We're happy to hear that! Thanks for watching!

  • @JustWojtek
    @JustWojtek11 ай бұрын

    I feel like we need a better definition for reality ... assuming that "reality" is what we "objectively measure in the physical world" is to reduce reality to our perceptions, which ultimately are translated into thoughts. It get's a bit messy once you try to tell apart our "abstract" ideas from the "physical" ones since ultimately they are all products of our minds - in one way or another.

  • @chimaosx

    @chimaosx

    11 ай бұрын

    basically the category of "reality" can't trully be achieved. it's more like "shared and agreed upon perceptions"

  • @MightyBrend

    @MightyBrend

    11 ай бұрын

    I tend to think of the 'reality' we live in and the actuality we inhabit. One is malleable and we experience, the other we have limited to no access to

  • @lordbunbury

    @lordbunbury

    11 ай бұрын

    You guys need to read some Kant.

  • @notmyrealpseudonym6702

    @notmyrealpseudonym6702

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@lordbunburymy thoughts as well

  • @lakshmisharma3412

    @lakshmisharma3412

    8 ай бұрын

    Reality means the complete description of an event

  • @lorenzoplaserrano8734
    @lorenzoplaserrano873411 ай бұрын

    i loveeed this one

  • @grecology
    @grecology11 ай бұрын

    Amazing. Hume V Kant photo finish

  • @sjoerd1239
    @sjoerd12392 ай бұрын

    We experience the world the way it is sufficiently to interact with the world to some degree. The brain is not in a silent box. It has sensory inputs. The brain is not just making predictions. It is making interpretations, which are not the same thing. The brain creates a model of the world, which includes the body of which the brain is a part. It does not do that completely from scratch. It inherits some innate ability as a foundation. When its interpretation of its sensory inputs or predictions do not align with experience or impede its ability to interact with the world, the brain needs to update its understanding (model) of the world.

  • @ellena0893
    @ellena08939 ай бұрын

    In every moment of our life we are creating our most appropriate variantes of “reality” based on our past experiences. Therefore, how can we know what is the reality, if we, as human beings, we have a different past experiences and also different reactions to the same kind of experience?

  • @charlesbrightman4237
    @charlesbrightman423710 ай бұрын

    LANGUAGE: Consider the following: Language, the very thing we utilize to think thoughts and convey ideas. Un-named Concepts -> Given a Name (could be a sound, symbol, etc) -> With an attached meaning -> And maybe even other meanings depending upon context -> And maybe even other names with the same meaning. (Basically a Dictionary and a Thesaurus for a language). BUT: a. How exactly do we know for 100% certainty that we have all the un-named concepts that could ever be named? b. How exactly do we know for 100% certainty that the meanings we give named concepts are 100% correct? We truly do not know what we do not know. This is a part of the 'Great Unknown'. Never stop learning. (Always have an 'unknown' in every analysis and an 'oops' in every experiment.) Of which, an entity or a society of entities: 1. Can name their own un-named concepts. 2. Can give their own meanings to named concepts. 3. Can have alternative meanings to named concepts depending upon context. 4. Can have alternative names with the same meaning. (Basically, create their own language that only they and they alone know). Learn to function in the 'Great Unknown'.

  • @Stappit
    @Stappit9 ай бұрын

    Anchoring

  • @JuliaPonomarenko
    @JuliaPonomarenko20 күн бұрын

    What else, except past experience, helps us to guess the cause based on the outcome?

  • @tauhid9983
    @tauhid998311 ай бұрын

    It doesn't just stop at experiences and sensory input... Imagine our fundamental principles of the universe... our brain interprets and processes these with the constraints of time and space. What is reality beyond these constraints? Is there more beyond what the brain experience or project?

  • @nodozhit
    @nodozhit11 ай бұрын

    We're just chroniclers of the consensus on our collective consciousness.

  • @anshanshtiwari8898
    @anshanshtiwari889811 ай бұрын

    Guys let's help him get sound proofing for his studio.

  • @romiagua2746
    @romiagua274611 ай бұрын

    É tudo muito simples, real tem forma, peso textura etc etc etc. Ireal não tem essas características.

  • @philsophkenny
    @philsophkenny10 ай бұрын

    ❤️

  • @alistairwilliams9885
    @alistairwilliams98859 ай бұрын

    Sadly there was no mention of, consciousness of our hearts ✨in conjunction with our brains?

  • @floepiejane
    @floepiejane11 ай бұрын

    Strawman: the brain doesn't know what's going on around it ... Yes, it does; that's what it does. If you remove a piece of skull, will the brain suddenly know what's going on around it? Absurd. Another one, but related: of course we all interpret reality for ourselves, and we don't have omniscience, but that still doesn't mean we don't know reality. We don't need to know the source of the explosion to know we heard a bang. The source of the bang is just knowledge refinement.

  • @floepiejane

    @floepiejane

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah, these are metaphysical arguments. No thank you.

  • @adibmohareri1223

    @adibmohareri1223

    11 ай бұрын

    So it doesnt make any difference to you if a bang is just a baloon poping or a gun firing? You just run anyways?

  • @floepiejane

    @floepiejane

    11 ай бұрын

    @@adibmohareri1223 of course that's important, but it's secondary to the bang, which did it job alerting us.

  • @grantbartley483
    @grantbartley4835 ай бұрын

    Well, your brain doesn't create reality, it creates a representation of reality for your mind. Unless we're talking QM, reality exists independent of your mind. I wish people would not be so inexact about such crucial concepts, especially when they're trying to be profound.

  • @maxasaurus3008
    @maxasaurus300811 ай бұрын

    😳🤯🔥

  • @psicologa
    @psicologa11 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @ohhirico7614
    @ohhirico761411 ай бұрын

    My social reality is nonexistent

  • @NiaRielCer
    @NiaRielCer29 күн бұрын

    I feel like I'm always living in an illusion

  • @oscarcazarez2227
    @oscarcazarez222711 ай бұрын

    So your reality is your 🧠 best guess based on your experience...🎉😮

  • @adellyjosefina

    @adellyjosefina

    11 ай бұрын

    That raises the question: what does it really mean to be in the present?

  • @oscarcazarez2227

    @oscarcazarez2227

    11 ай бұрын

    @adellyjosefina to me it means to not have an expectation of an outcome & no preconceived idea of an outcome. Trying hard not to remember any real detail of the now, I guess. That's a tough question 🤔 I think as a conscience being we have to settle with the concept that there are things we will never know & on to the next idea 💡. Any thoughts?

  • @playesteban
    @playesteban11 ай бұрын

    So basically life has no meaning, but we do, so it does have one

  • @k00lkane
    @k00lkane11 ай бұрын

    Social constructionism 101. Not particularly insightful. Her lab operates under the assumption that all psychological constructs are social constructs, which is true. But a good psychological construct is true irrespective of our naming or categorisation of such. The examples she was using was human emotion. Now, we recognise fear as a meaningful category hence we label it fear, but irrespective of how you label it the underlying neuro chemical/neurological reaction that represents fear occurs in situations that warrant it because fear as implicit, survival value - hence the construction of fear is not just a category that makes sense to those who label it, it exists despite us labelling it.

  • @JustWojtek

    @JustWojtek

    11 ай бұрын

    but it wouldn't make much less sense without labelling it. That's the point she is making (I think). If you just have an ambiguous feeling you don't know what to do with, that's not particularly helpful. If you have an ambiguous feeling you always react to in the same way, leaving it unobserved and unnamed won't be particularly helpful in reframing its meaning and changing your reaction. An calling something "socially real" doesn't chip away it's meaning, it's still real, it just doesn't exist as such a framed concept in fundamental reality.

  • @k00lkane

    @k00lkane

    11 ай бұрын

    @@JustWojtek Yes, that makes sense. You’re describing soft social constructionism which adds to our understanding of reality. It’s hard social constructionism that is utter nonsense.

  • @adibmohareri1223

    @adibmohareri1223

    11 ай бұрын

    This has nothing to do with social constructivism. You can search the predictive coding theory, it tries to explain human cognition.

  • @ParanoidGoblinoid
    @ParanoidGoblinoid11 ай бұрын

    Philosophy FTW

  • @philip6770
    @philip677010 күн бұрын

    If our brain creates reality, then it is more accurate to say that our brain creates an illusion, because everyone perceives reality differently. There must be one and only one true reality that is consistent with what we all observe. Before we ask what reality is, we must ask where it all began, because reality must have been created. But by whom? Who created us? How did we come into existence? Just like in the story of Adam and Eve, once a person denies God and goes their own way, they start creating their own reality based on experiences and other people's influences on each other. This eventually gets them into a big mess, like what we have done to ourselves and the world now.

  • @3coins.
    @3coins.11 ай бұрын

    Your brain can leave a mark from trauma.

  • @L5biszz
    @L5biszz11 ай бұрын

    I heard about this many times. But I was only able to understand it fully when I heard Donal Trump talk. Only then i understood that each of us hallucinates our own reality. So close yet, so far 😂😂😂😂😂...sometimes.

  • @rubeng9092
    @rubeng909211 ай бұрын

    "The Brain creates a model and constructs categories" no. The brain just fires neurons. Its a physical thing, categories aren't physical.

  • @adibmohareri1223

    @adibmohareri1223

    11 ай бұрын

    So you thought of this sentence just by firing the neurons in your brain?

  • @rubeng9092

    @rubeng9092

    11 ай бұрын

    @@adibmohareri1223 My brain did the firing, I did the thinking. I used both language and my brain for it. But I was the one who did it, not Mr.grey matter.

  • @Yuvraj.

    @Yuvraj.

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rubeng9092that’s your ego speaking, but the “you” that’s inside your head is downstream of your brain doing a whole lot of information processing before you ever have a chance to think a thought.

  • @rubeng9092

    @rubeng9092

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Yuvraj. I am not denying that I need my brain to articulate thoughts. But those thoughts are not directly produced by my brain, there is not a single brain state that maps onto this or that thought, because thoughts themselves are a entities in a network of linguistic reference. You cannot make someone think of the Eiffeltower, if they never heard of it in their entire life, no matter what you do to their brains. Meaning isn't stored in neurons, but in propositions.

  • @BulentBasaran
    @BulentBasaran10 ай бұрын

    Informative little talk, but, why does she keep referring to the "mind" as the "brain?" Imagination is what happens in our minds. The brain, the physical and complicated machine that it is, still is just a piece of hardware and seems to help facilitate and run the "software" we, since John Locke, call the "mind", but, we don't really know how the mind and the brain (in fact the whole body) relate. Neurologists study the brain. A psychologist by definition studies the psyche, the greek word for all things mental. So, this researcher who studies the mind better call it the mind.

  • @tommyjohnson8016
    @tommyjohnson801611 ай бұрын

    So the brain is it's own animal.

  • @kdm313
    @kdm31311 ай бұрын

    That told me nothing

  • @henrygonzales9666
    @henrygonzales9666Ай бұрын

    Buddhists knew this hundreds of years ago.

  • @ParanoidGoblinoid
    @ParanoidGoblinoid11 ай бұрын

    2:03 Trigger warning: gun shot

  • @zes7215
    @zes72155 ай бұрын

    wrg

  • @learnmeu3255
    @learnmeu325511 ай бұрын

    How can I limit my daydreaming

  • @MultiMagnumforce
    @MultiMagnumforce9 ай бұрын

    What about no Free Will ?

  • @stoonookw
    @stoonookw11 ай бұрын

    Imagine explaining everything like how she did with the brain--your bones are locked inside your skin and can't get out. Everything is trapped inside of you lol! I mean it's a fundamental concept that everyone understands, but it doesn't take a PHD in philosophy or neuroscience to grasp that concept.

  • @bryanchannell7715
    @bryanchannell771511 ай бұрын

    Realty is ur assuming perspective, but on one way it's all false , bc without humans there is no reality, some people are egotistical and some people without an ego realize I am who you say I am and those too can be blind of each other but it's a paradox and if we all love each other we have the same realty but when people don't love each other we don't have the same realities

  • @truptiraut3017
    @truptiraut301711 ай бұрын

    FIRST

  • @mahakala
    @mahakala11 ай бұрын

    one needs to read ramana maharshi for the ultimate answer.

  • @ryder1658
    @ryder165810 ай бұрын

    All or nothing thinking. You don’t experience reality 100% accurately, but not 0% either. If our experience was too inaccurate, we would die out. We perceive things and process information accurately. Enough of this.

  • @massimookissed1023
    @massimookissed102311 ай бұрын

    Yeah,.. tulips don't smell very nice.

  • @davidtrindle6473
    @davidtrindle647311 ай бұрын

    The brain is not “trapped” in the box of self. This is a very bad metaphor. The brain creates the illusion of “self” just as it creates the world as we see it. We have no idea what “reality” actually might be.

  • @michaelmccain7245

    @michaelmccain7245

    11 ай бұрын

    Agreed, a terrible metaphor considering that the eyes, which arent fully protected by the skull, are an extension of the brain itself. Another thing is that the speaker in the video talks about many abstract concepts like social constructs but conveniently ignores physical realities that are coherent with objective reality. An example would be the millions of vehicles we see on the roads covering our Earth. These vehicles wouldn’t be able to operate and humans wouldn’t be able to maneuver them through physical reality if our brains didn’t comprehend objective reality. So all in all, yes abstract thoughts aren’t “reality” but our brains still do a good job of interpreting objective reality.

  • @MarkoStev

    @MarkoStev

    11 ай бұрын

    She said that the brain is trapped in a skull. Which it is. Metaphor is good.

  • @Evan102030

    @Evan102030

    11 ай бұрын

    In the literal, physical sense it's true. A calcium vessel containing electrical porridge. Like.. what?

  • @SchgurmTewehr

    @SchgurmTewehr

    11 ай бұрын

    That is literally the entire point she made.

  • @JustWojtek

    @JustWojtek

    11 ай бұрын

    that's confusing the brain with the mind and confusing the mind with it's many meanings among which are consciousness and awareness ... physically speaking the brain is trapped in a box aka the skull. What the mind does is a whole different matter - pun intended (metaphysics) - and no: it's most probably not completely divorced from what's out there.

  • @romoloborra65
    @romoloborra6511 ай бұрын

    Let philosophers do philosophy…

  • @shawonhasnat7105
    @shawonhasnat71059 ай бұрын

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