Consciousness and Your Brain: Perception or Deception?
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Consciousness and Your Brain: Perception or Deception?
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How much of what you experience is actually the world—and how much is your brain’s best guess?
Consciousness and Your Brain: Perception or Deception? explores the fascinating relationship between perception, attention, memory, emotion, expectation, and conscious awareness. Rather than treating your senses as a perfect window onto reality, the book shows how the brain actively builds an internal model from incomplete information—and how that model can sometimes mislead you.
Using approachable neuroscience, psychology, familiar examples, and practical reflection, M.R. Minarsich examines how prediction, selective attention, sensory limits, stress, mood, and prior experience shape what feels true.
Inside, you’ll explore:
- the difference between perception and conscious awareness
- how the brain fills in missing information and predicts what comes next
- why illusions and blind spots reveal how perception is constructed
- how attention determines which information reaches awareness
- how emotion, stress, and cognitive load can narrow or distort perception
- why two people can experience or remember the same event differently
- practical ways to recognize blind spots, question assumptions, and respond with greater clarity
The goal isn’t to make you distrust your mind. It’s to understand it well enough to notice when expectation, emotion, and automatic processing may be shaping the story you’re telling yourself.
Book Three in the Mindful Meditation Series by M.R. Minarsich.
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