#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise - Part 1/3)
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#49 – Why Does Your Brain Love Being Tricked? (The Engineering of Surprise - Part 1/3)
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Why do we pay to be lied to?
In this first episode of our trilogy on the neuroscience of storytelling, Alice and Marc crack open the black box of the Bayesian Brain. Discover how your mind is actually a "prediction machine" that hallucinates your reality, and why a good plot twist triggers a massive dopamine hit by generating a Prediction Error.
From The Sixth Sense to Fight Club, learn how directors hack your attention and why, the second the twist is revealed, your memory rewrites itself to make you believe you "knew it all along" (Hindsight Bias). It’s not just entertainment; it’s a survival simulation.
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