our Twitter (X) feedView our Youtube channelView our Instagram feedView our Substack feedView our Spotify feed How curiosity can expand your Perception Box — and your awareness PhilosophyMind and BehaviorWellbeingConsciousnessAltered States Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is among the top 1% most-cited scientists in the world, having published over 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers.Dr. Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at[…] Dr.
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Is reality objective — something definite that exists independent of us? Or is it subjective, existing only in our individual heads? Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, argues it’s neither.
Instead, she believes reality is relational. Barrett offers this example: Suppose you tell your therapist you're mad, and they say you’re actually sad. An objective view might say there’s a correct answer — one of you is right, or perhaps both of you are wrong.
Others would say the answer depends on each person’s individual experience. Rather, the brain draws on past experience to interpret incoming sensory signals, creating each individual’s very own Perception Box, the invisible mental frame through which we each experience the world. To illustrate the idea, she turns to an old parable: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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