lmfao
You have a brain that makes you think that you think.
And it’s a pretty messed up trick, but the lies we tell ourselves may be more important than we realize. Experiments have shown that our brains are constantly deceiving us, almost every second of the day. We can’t totally trust our memory, our perception differs constantly on all kinds of levels, we make up reasons why we believe what we think… meanwhile we don’t even know what consciousness is exactly, but we buy every bit of it.
I freely admit, I was not interested in perception, illusion, memory or attention studies prior to realizing it’s all a form of self-deception. The obvious question then is why do we lie to ourselves? In a recent chat with my new lab director, we touched on some evolutionary reasons that sound like a good starting point, as ya do when you have such questions.
So for the next couple of weeks, in hopes of coming up with an experiment:
I’ll be looking at this 3 pound blob of gooey jello-like mass of tissue….a things that is truly ours, makes us who we are, possibly the seed of our soul and I’ll be asking why it lies to us and how can I manipulate that.
