Scientific American Special - Secrets of The Mind - USA (2022-Winter)

38 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | SPECIAL EDITION | WINTER 2022

Reality is constructed by the brain,

and no two brains are exactly alike

By Anil K. Seth

“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

—from Seduction of the Minotaur, by Anaïs Nin (1961)

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Illustration by Brook VanDevelder