You Don’t Experience Reality—You Experience Predictions

There’s a moment most sharp minds know intimately.

You walk into a room and you already know how the conversation is going to go. You feel the tension before anyone speaks. You sense the disappointment before the news lands. And then, sometimes you’re right. And sometimes the room surprises you, and there’s this strange, almost physical jolt of recalibration.

That jolt? That’s your brain updating its hallucination.

Predictive Processing Theory makes a claim so radical it takes a moment to fully absorb:

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