Your brain is biased by default. Here’s how to reset it. | David Eagleman

Expanding your worldview starts with understanding your brain. Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman explains. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► Watch the full Perception Box series ► David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Stanford and host of the Inner Cosmos podcast, explores how our brains shape the reality we experience and why we often accept our perceptions as the only truth. From a young age, we develop our understanding of the world based on limited experiences and biases, which can lead us to form narrow views about what’s true. Eagleman explains that our genetics and life experiences wire our brains in unique ways, meaning that each of us sees the world a little differently. He introduces the idea of “perceptual genomics,“ which looks at how slight genetic differences influence our pe