Reality of Perception

Our prehistoric brains had to directly experience an event to learn from its pleasures and pains, but now our expanded brain capacity allows us to imagine what has not yet happened. This is what historians deem the reason humans are regarded as the most intelligent primate on Earth. Our brain is not just a simple recording device it's a computer that gathers information and offers its best interpretation of how things are. In most cases, we don't realize that what we're seeing is an interpretation.