"Your brain constantly runs a model of your body as it moves through the world.
You come to know that world only through your cochlea, retina, and the other
sensory surfaces of your body. Their signals, along with those streaming from
within your body, continuously confirm or correct the ongoing signals in your
brain. The implication is a bit startling: You cannot experience the world, or
even your own body, objectively. Your experience is always from a particular
perspective, and no perspective is universal."
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett shares more in this piece that uses neuroscience to
explain how opening yourself to new experiences and interacting with people
who think differently than you gives you the opportunity to create new
meaning, and find greater agency.
