We perceive a low resolution, small slice, of reality, which our brains preprocess and amend by prediction, and that is "what we see". So yes, we don't see anything outside that resolution, or outside of that small slice. And there is some real warping going on when the brain recognizes faces, eyes, mouths. Or shadows, perspective, the horizon.
But I don't think that is what Joscha Bach was talking about. He said reality is very different from the dreamed up reality our brains present to us.
The only thing I can come up with is "disgust". If somebody with dirty hands touches something else, that other thing is now tainted in your mind, and the brain is pretty good at tracking what is tainted. Even if it has no physical counterpart.
Something similar for ownership. In a way, things in reality are recognized and tagged with extra information, dirty, owner, important ... etc.
Something similar for math, or money, stealing, or how society works. Yet I think most of us can easily recognize that those things are not part of reality, but part of structure humans put on top of reality to analyze it, or to share ideas about it, and work together in it.
But what idea in the mind is so far away from its counterpart in reality, that one could say the mind dreams it up? Or has no counterpart, yet the brain thinks it has. Maybe agency when we do not know the agent?
Just watched all his 4 talks https://media.ccc.de/search?q=Joscha . Time well spend on this Sunday January first :) And if I interpret it correctly, he is talking about concepts that come not from our direct sensors, but from structures humans put on top of reality, because things mean something to us.
But I don't think that is what Joscha Bach was talking about. He said reality is very different from the dreamed up reality our brains present to us.
The only thing I can come up with is "disgust". If somebody with dirty hands touches something else, that other thing is now tainted in your mind, and the brain is pretty good at tracking what is tainted. Even if it has no physical counterpart.
Something similar for ownership. In a way, things in reality are recognized and tagged with extra information, dirty, owner, important ... etc.
Something similar for math, or money, stealing, or how society works. Yet I think most of us can easily recognize that those things are not part of reality, but part of structure humans put on top of reality to analyze it, or to share ideas about it, and work together in it.
But what idea in the mind is so far away from its counterpart in reality, that one could say the mind dreams it up? Or has no counterpart, yet the brain thinks it has. Maybe agency when we do not know the agent?