Practically-A-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance
We don’t directly perceive the external world. Every philosopher has their own way of saying exactly what it is we do perceive, but the predictive processing interpretation is that we perceive our models of the world. To be very naive and hand-wavey, lower-level brain centers get sense-data, make a guess about what produced that sense data, then “show” “us” that guess. If the guess is wrong, too bad - we see the incorrect guess, not the reality.