Plato's cave and the neurobiology of reality construction.
Neuroscience July 3, 2026 Alexis Demas
Perception is increasingly framed, across neuroscience and theoretical psychology, as an active inferential process rather than a passive transcription of the external world. Contemporary models suggest that sensory experience emerges from internally generated hypotheses constrained by prediction, uncertainty, and the statistical structure of the environment. Long before these developments,...