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The Neuroscience of Polarization

How our brain receives information

Do you ever speak to someone close to you and wonder why they don't seem to understand you? That might have to do with how our brain receives information. The assumption is that if we both receive the same information, we should have the same sense of reality. When information enters our brain, our brain interprets that information based on a number of factors such the members of our social circle, the news we consume, lived experience among many others.

Henry Markram is a neuroscientist from South Africa. In 2009, he spoke at TED Talks about how science and technology has led to breakthroughs in how he is able to understand how the quality of information we consume has a direct impact on the accuracy of our sense of reality.

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