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All Lies?!

Teher’s Mroe Tahn Mtees the Eye…

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Why the brain simulates things that aren’t really there

DECODED BY NEUROSCI ENTISTS

* CAN YOU TALK GIBBERISH? All lies— you probably understood this line immediatel­y. Our brains automatica­lly replace the meaningles­s sequence of characters with something meaningful— even though it’s not what actually appears there. When it comes to randomizat­ion of letters, to some extent it is possible to read text in which the order of the letters is jumbled as long as the first and last letters are correct.

Why the brain fabricates things that don’t actually exist, and how the illusion in our minds becomes our reality— sometimes with devastatin­g consequenc­es…

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