Your brain creates your reality. Our brains have a way of playing tricks on us — like that ringing in our ears known as tinnitus. It’s a sound in your head, created to make up for hearing loss. And that’s not the only way minds create the world we live in. “I study whether The Matrix is a movie or a documentary,” Pascal Wallisch, a professor of data science, neuroscience, and psychology at NYU, told Vox. Whether our senses are simply transmitting objective reality — or creating an artificial, subjective one. “Everything that you perceive is filtered for your sensory organs and then...

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