Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently by Beau Lotto

Author:Beau Lotto [Lotto, Beau]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Economics / General, Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Self-Help / General, Business &#38
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2017-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Your Space of Possibility

The space of possibility is the patterns of neural activity that are possible given the structure of your network (or connectomes). Collectively, your neural network determines all the different possible patterns inside your head. In other words, it contains the matrix of perceptions/ideas/behaviors that you are capable of having, which means it contains a lot (but again, its potential is far from infinite). These perceptions/ideas/behaviors run the gamut from the most luminous, earth-shaking ones, to the most banal, humdrum ones… most of which you’ll never actually experience, but are theoretically possible given a certain concatenation (network linking) of stimuli. Moreover, outside this space are those perceptions and ideas that don’t, indeed can’t, arise in your brain and can’t occur to you, at least at that moment—which arguably are much more numerous than the ones that are possible. Your assumptions (i.e., the connectivity between brain cells that is your history) determine the boundaries and everything that falls within—and hence the structure and dimensionality of your space of possibility. Note also that each of these patterns is related to others, some being more similar to each other and others less so.

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