{"id":128407,"date":"2024-08-08T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=128407"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:17:36","slug":"faulty-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/faulty-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Perception: Why You Should Question Your Senses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why do your senses sometimes deceive you? How can your own brain lead you astray?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her book <em>Being Wrong<\/em>, Kathryn Schulz explores the concept of faulty perception. She explains how our brains process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/sensory-information-processing\/\">sensory information<\/a> and make decisions. She reveals surprising insights about our cognitive processes that are important for us to understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to better understand some of the hidden workings of your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-faulty-perception\">Faulty Perception<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The most basic and natural mistake we make is to trust the evidence of our senses without question. The senses are the mind\u2019s only window to the world, but we underestimate the degree to which that window is clouded by how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/mental-filtering\/\">brain filters<\/a> data through an unconscious interpretive process, followed by instinctive reasoning that doesn\u2019t rely on strict rules of logic, which can create a faulty perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schulz explains that our conscious minds don\u2019t receive the \u201craw data\u201d from our senses. Instead, the information we see, hear, and feel is touched up and processed by our unconscious nervous system, such as the way the brain\u2019s visual cortex fills in the gaps between the still frames of a movie. <strong>Our brains are designed to fill in the gaps in any sensory data we receive.<\/strong> Doing so gives us a more cohesive awareness of our surroundings, which therefore aids our survival in the wild\u2014but it also opens the door to error, particularly when the brain\u2019s \u201cbest guess\u201d to fill those gaps turns out to be wrong.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Research into the neurological process Schulz describes has shown that in humans\u2014and primates in general\u2014object recognition involves more of the brain than the visual processing centers alone. When an object is partially hidden, giving the visual cortex limited information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/09\/170919091019.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neurons start to fire in the sections of the brain associated with memory and problem-solving<\/a>. This suggests that the \u201cevidence of our eyes\u201d is guided just as much by memory and context as it is by what we actually see. The same researchers also suggest that a breakdown of this process may account for some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abtaba.com\/blog\/autism-and-dementia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perceptual difficulties experienced by people with autism or Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our misperceptions are amplified when we use them to make decisions, a process which also relies on \u201cbest guess\u201d logic more than we\u2019d like to admit, writes Schulz. Rather than using careful logic to make decisions and judgments, <strong>our brains default to <\/strong><strong><em>inductive reasoning<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2014determining what\u2019s likely to be true based on past experience.<\/strong> This mental shorthand allows for quick decisions that tend to be <em>mostly <\/em>right most of the time, but inductive reasoning also leads us into various cognitive traps, such as making overly broad and biased generalizations while ignoring information that doesn\u2019t jibe with our beliefs. As with our sensory errors, our imprecise reasoning is a natural side effect of the processes that make our brains so efficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: Despite the benefits Schulz describes, semi-logical reasoning can also make us vulnerable to mistakes based on rhetorical fallacies\u2014in other words, we can be persuaded to be wrong. In <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/thank-you-for-arguing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Thank You for Arguing<\/em><\/a>, Jay Heinrichs explains that, <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/thank-you-for-arguing\/1-page-summary#the-flipside-use-em-logos-em-to-judge-others-arguments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to be persuasive, an argument doesn\u2019t have to be right, it only has to <em>feel <\/em>right<\/a>. To guard against falling prey to such \u201creasoning,\u201d you have to watch out for several logical-sounding fallacies you\u2019ll come across, such as weak evidence, false dichotomies, straw-man arguments, and false correlations, all of which satisfy the \u201cbest guess\u201d logic that Schulz asserts our brains rely on.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do your senses sometimes deceive you? How can your own brain lead you astray? 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