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![]() In a very literal sense, your brain is a subjective lens through which you experience life. ![]() Our experiences are the interpretations of sensations by a subjective brain which factors in our unique beliefs, biases, memories, and desires every time. What we experience is not what we literally sense. He explains that the taste of wine, like everything in life, is more than the sum of our senses. And if we think we are tasting a Grand Cru, then we will taste a Grand Cru.” Your Brain Is a Subjective Lens Through Which You View Your Life If we think the wine is cheap, it will taste cheap. What these wine experiments illuminate is the omnipresence of subjectivity….Our human brain has been designed to believe itself, wired so that prejudices feel like facts, opinions are indistinguishable from the actual sensations. The wine in the expensive bottle was described as “agreeable, complex, balanced, and rounded” while the identical wine with a cheap-looking label was said to be “weak, short, light, flat, and faulty.” The wine experts gave the exact same wine in different bottles very different ratings. One bottle was labeled to look like a fancy, fine wine while the other was labeled to resemble a common table wine. In another test, Brochet took the same medium-quality Bordeaux and served it in two different bottles. Not one of them identified it as a white wine. The experts described the “red” wine in terms of its “jamminess” and other red wine jargon. In the first one, Brochet took two glasses of the exact white wine, colored one of them red with food coloring, and proceeded to get observations from 57 wine experts. Appropriately enough, the experiments involved wine. In Jonah Lehrer’s book, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, he tells of experiments conducted by Frederic Brochet in 2001 at the University of Bordeaux. You can consciously direct and influence your thoughts at that point. Therein lies your power to influence your reality. Nothing is good or bad or associated with any emotions or actions - until your brain attaches those things to it. So, stimuli coming into your brain are neutral. These influences are typically below conscious awareness and determine how a person responds to the world, interacts in relationships, and thinks of and talks to themselves. Each of us experiences the world subjectively as our brains interpret stimuli determined by our physical brain function, memories, beliefs, and attitudes about ourselves, others, and the world shaped by family, religion, school, culture, and life experiences past and present. Its interpretation is determined by your subconscious. It means that your brain assigns meaning to the electrical signals it receives. … Everything you experience - every sight, sound, smell - rather than being a direct experience, is an electrochemical rendition in a dark theater.'” Instead, there’s only one way that information from out there gets into the brain. Sealed within the dark, silent chamber of your skull, your brain has never directly experienced the external world, and it never will. ‘Here’s the key: the brain has no access to the world outside. In his book, The Brain: The Story of You, David Eagleman writes: When you touch something, it feels like the touch is happening in your fingers. Your senses do not experience the world directly. It may feel as though you have direct access to the concrete physical world through your senses, but you don’t. In “ The Neuroscience of Your Reality,” I write: Much of what you think of as reality is really a construction of your brain. Making sense of the world and what happens is the result of your individual brain’s interpretation of the signals it receives as you go about your days interacting with your environment. Your Reality Is the Product of Your Unique BrainĪt the most basic level, your unique reality is constructed by your unique brain. Let me explain – with the science to back it up. Now, I put the power of my mind to work for me. Unfortunately, most of us let them hurt us unknowingly. They are powerful, and you can direct and use them to help you. Thoughts are real, tangible, measurable things - electrical impulses. Articles without the science to back up the concept backup make it seem like “magical thinking.” I think more articles should emphasize this point because it is the very real power we all have to change our lives. Well, I want you to know that the influence your thoughts have on your physical and perceptual reality is well-documented by scientific evidence. If you Google “power of thoughts,” you get a lot of results including words like “consciousness,” “swami,” “manifest,” and “unleash.” To me, these words suggest a basis not rooted securely in science and more rooted in marketing hype.
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