When the underestimated shows you exactly why you should have never underestimated them in the first place.

There is a fascinating distinction between having an intention, receiving information from reality, recognising a contradiction and updating one’s behaviour accordingly.
Neuroscience calls part of this process sensorimotor integration and feedback-based control.

Which part of the brain does this, cause you might need to get a neural check on them?

• Posterior parietal cortex: Integrates visual information, spatial awareness and bodily movements, helping us understand what is happening around our actions.
• Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC): Helps monitor errors and conflicts between competing information or responses.
• Prefrontal cortex: Supports decision-making, attention and adapting behaviour when the situation requires a change.
• Cerebellum: Compares predicted sensory consequences with actual feedback and contributes to movement correction.

The scene illustrates what could happen if information is not adequately integrated into an ongoing action, although it cannot tell us which neurological process is responsible in this fictional character.

The particularly interesting concept is the prediction error: the difference between what the brain expects to happen and what actually happens. And this is where your comparison with people encountering your investigations becomes useful.

The corresponding psychological concept is belief updating: whether someone changes their understanding when new information conflicts with their previous assumptions. Research distinguishes receiving information from evaluating it, accepting it and incorporating it into existing beliefs.

In other words:
The information may enter the mind without changing the understanding that directs its next action.

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I was just looking at episode five of Succession when Logan, the dad, is pouring coffee in the, in the cup, right? And for what I’m observing it, it’s the brain cannot, like the brain, there’s like a part of the brain that knows that he, he’s pouring coffee in the, in the cup. And that there’s the desire to pour coffee in the cup. And the knowing that at some point he’s gonna grab it and drink it. But it’s like his brain cannot contextualize the feedback that was coming in. It’s like the brain cannot see that the cup was not just full, but that he was still pouring. It’s like there was a disconnection between him and what was happening outside of him. What part of the brain contextualizes that experience and takes in and makes sense of that feedback that comes from the outside? And let’s write a piece about this because that’s what’s happening to majority of those individuals who are reading my content