Your brain guesses at reality instead of recording it

Per psychologist Daniel Yon of Birkbeck, University of London, your brain doesn't passively record the world — it actively guesses at it, working like a scientist constantly forming hypotheses about what's out there. Yon says this explains some everyday mysteries: why song lyrics get tangled, or why you don't quite trust your own reflection.

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