Emily McDonald compares how your brain filters reality to how smartphone algorithms work. Both prioritize content matching your emotional state and memories, then adapt based on what you engage with. You experience less than one percent of reality, shaped by your own mental algorithm.
Your brain has an algorithm and your phone has an algorithm, and it works astonishingly well. And it works fast. You engage with one type of post, and now all of a sudden you're getting so much content that is related to that type of post. You are always training your algorithm. Your brain is constantly filtering your reality and only showing you what aligns with your emotional state, your focus, your mindset, your memories. We experience less than 1% of reality, and it is really, really important to acknowledge that the brain and our reality algorithm works very similarly to how the phone's algorithm works.
