Beau Lotto is a perceptual neuroscientist who runs the "Lab of Misfits" at University College London. I this book he encourages each of us to look at the world with our senses anew - in other words, as a "Deviate."

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads
from Beau Lotto’s…

3. Thread 1:
Your brain gives you the impression that
your perceptions are objectively real, yet
the sensory
processes that
make perception
possible actually
separate you
from ever
accessing that
reality directly.
(pg. 1)

4. Thread 2:
Nothing interesting ever happens without
active
doubt.
(pg. 11)

5. Thread 3:
We can identify
the four reasons
why we don’t
have access to
reality:
1. We Don’t
Sense All
There Is
to Sense.
(pg. 49)

6. Thread 4:
2. The Information We Take in Is in
Constant
Flux.
(pg. 54)

7. Thread 5:
3. All Stimuli
Are Highly
Ambiguous
(pg. 56)

8. Thread 6:
4. There Is No Instruction Manual
(pg. 59)

9. Thread 7:
The ecological brain constructs meaning
out of past experience….This means that
the more you
engage with
your world,
the richer
your history of
response will be
for helping you
respond usefully.
(pg. 69)

10. Thread 8:
We all have experiential realities that form
our brains, so we’re all like kittens pawing
at a percep-
tual past
that allows
us to make
sense of
the present.
(pg. 73)

11. Thread 9:
Getting a stronger
sense of the prin-
ciples of your
own brain allows
you to see how
subtly past
experience
not only
biases us,
but creates us.
(pg. 119)

12. Thread 10:
Life is pretty basic, but it’s not simple.
At any point in time your brain is only
ever making
one decision:
to move
TOWARD
or to move
AWAY
from
something.
(pg. 120)

13. Thread 11:
At bottom, our lives are in fact little more
than millions and millions of sequential,
knee-jerk, reflexive
responses. We have
to practice taking
the jerk out of the
knee-jerk.
(pg. 157 & 260)

14. Thread 12:
Our personalities
differ depending
on the day, the
place, and the
company we keep.
Yet we rarely ap-
proach life with
this in mind.
It makes us
nervous.
(pg. 223 )

15. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 3 - http://www.baroque-encounter.com/a-feast-for-the-senses.html
Slide 12 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/80150068344037053/
Slide 2 - https://http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/11/opinion/lotto-ted-science-play/
Slide 6 - http://old.ragazine.cc/2010/10/amy-swartele/
Slide 5 - http://bit.ly/1Am0INI
Slide 11 - http://www.sonoma.edu/newscenter/2011/11/heidi-lamoreaux---personal-geographies.html
Slide 10 - http://www.catster.com/lifestyle/introducing-cats-and-kittens
Slide 16 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://simpleplantbasedlife.com/about-me/
Slide 8 - http://www.moddb.com/mods/source-media-arcade/features/official-users-manual
Slide 7 - http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/ambigfig/gilbert
Slide 4 - https://stream.org/doubt-scientific-consensus/
Slide 13 - http://reaction.politifake.org/tags/reaction/-1
Slide 14 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/540783867728733066//

16. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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