Andrew Huberman· PhD
so the other thing though that you pointed out which I think is really important is that the um none of this is static it's all evolving over time right the signals are evolving over time so both the signals that are constantly hitting the sensory surfaces of the body and making their way to the brain but also the intrinsic signals in the brain it's all changing over time so when we talk about context that's important how is the brain making a decision about similarity like what are the features that are similar it's it's not just at a single snapshot in time it's always happening dynamically over time right and most of the time though you don't ask your you don't wait to hear a second sound you don't you're not deliberately attempting to figure out what the sound is your brain is just sorting it out right and it's sorting It Out by narrowing down the possibilities and there are some selection mechanisms in the brain that help it guess better but also the signals coming from the world um are are also helping to select which possibility um is the right one