How Senses Shape Perception

Our experience of reality relies on both what we can sense and how our brain can make sense of those signals.

Because the brain is trapped in the 'dark, silent box' of the skull, it must guess at the causes of sensory signals using past experience, which is called the 'Reverse inference problem.'

Humans can create 'social reality' by collectively assigning a function to objects or ideas that they don't inherently possess, like money or borders.