![]() ![]() For example, you can recognize things you’ve never encountered before, like a picture of a horse with feathery wings. They don’t merely reinstate old content they generate new content. These comparisons incorporate all your senses at once, because your brain constructs all sensations at once and represents them as grand patterns of neural activity that enable you to experience and understand the world around you.īrains also have an amazing capacity to combine pieces of the past in novel ways. Your brain compares the sense data coming in now with things you’ve sensed before in a similar situation where you had a similar goal. ![]() You don’t see with your eyes you see with your brain. I’m speaking of the automatic, unconscious process of looking at an object or a word and instantly knowing what it is.Įvery act of recognition is a construction. I’m not speaking here of the conscious experience of remembering something, like recalling your best friend’s face or yesterday’s dinner. ![]() In fact, your brain may construct the same memory (or, more accurately, what you experience as the same memory) in different ways each time. ![]() We call this process “remembering,” but it’s really assembling. When your brain remembers, it re-creates bits and pieces of the past and seamlessly combines them. ![]()
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