What if reality is not experienced directly, but constructed through prediction, compression, memory, and social agreement? In this episode of Autism & the Structure of Reality, we explore how the brain builds models of the world — and why most people stabilize reality collectively through shared assumptions, habits, and social compression. Drawing from neuroscience, predictive processing, Jung, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Dostoevsky, this episode examines how perception itself may be shaped by consensus rather than objective truth.

The episode also explores autism, heightened detail processing, uncertainty, social conformity, pattern recognition, and why different perceptual styles can create radically different experiences of the same world. If the brain is constantly simplifying reality to conserve energy, what happens when a mind compresses less and perceives more? This discussion dives into predictive processing, internal vs external reality, cognitive friction, and the hidden psychological cost of maintaining the shared structures humans call “normal.”

Part 1 https://youtu.be/fqDAfjMXTBQ?si=zzhf5ZrQ8nlwcVuu

Part 2 https://youtu.be/bM7kw6ni3Tk?si=sSH_CJcV42Rx-xLr

Part 3 https://youtu.be/lFP-anBiei4?si=nvcheRbdPnaE9ygL

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00:00 MAYU Water

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03:24 Autism & the Structure of Reality; Prediction & Consensus Reality

05:18 Predictive Processing; Shared Perception & Compression

07:46 Autism, Detail Processing & Reduced Compression

10:31 Jung, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard & the Crowd

13:42 Dostoevsky, Meaning & Collective Illusions

16:18 Internal vs External Reality; Social Conformity

18:56 Pattern Recognition, Salience & Autistic Perception

21:37 Prediction Errors; Uncertainty & Resistance to Change

24:11 Shared Reality, Identity & Cognitive Friction

26:54 Autism & the Structure of Reality — Final Thoughts

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