The Space Between Reaction and Regulation
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Human Experience
How the nervous system builds the feel of being alive — prediction, perception, attention, emotion, body, and decision.
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Prediction
The brain as a prediction machine.
Perception is not reception. It is the brain’s best guess, updated when reality disagrees.
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Perception
What we see is a hypothesis, not a photograph.
Perception is the brain’s best inference about the causes of its own sensations, held together by predictions.
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Attention
The nervous system’s way of saying "this matters".
Attention is not a spotlight. It is the brain’s allocation of precision — of trust — to certain signals over others.
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Emotion
Emotions are made, not received.
The old story: emotions are hard-wired reactions to events. The newer, better story: emotions are constructed by the brain in real time.
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Body Awareness
Interoception is the ground on which experience is built.
Everything felt has a bodily correlate. Awareness of the body is not one skill among many — it is the substrate of the rest.
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Decision Making
Every decision is embodied before it is conscious.
Long before the reasoning arrives, the body has already registered its answer. Good decisions include listening for it.
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