Post by Hector Aguinaga on May 27, 2015 8:48:53 GMT
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
Consciousness is subjective, which means it is induced by our perception of the objective world, as we know it. As the book Cerebral Mirage by Professor Diane Lane, explains, “The brain tricks us into believing something to be real when it is not, provided that such trickery provides with a survival advantage”. / “We have evolved not necessarily to understand how the universe works, but to find ways and means to survive within it”. For example one of the things that our eye vision concentrate is on edges, as it try to make sense of it, as edges can help us or kill us, as it is the case of the sharp edge of a rock. That feature of our vision is for our survival advantage were “natural selection will favor strategies that make many incorrect causal associations in order to establish those that are essential for survival and reproduction”. In the video The Disneyland of consciousness professor David Lane explained his experience with the ride “Pirates of the Caribbean, were one of the pirates overlooking from the bridge appeared as staring at him, when in reality it was the lightning that gave that illusion”. Our brain looks for patterns in faces especially in the eye and mouth to make sense and perceive a person’s emotions.