Perception is not about seeing what’s there; it’s about making sense of what’s there.

This line aligns with Beau Lotto’s common theme in talks and writing about perception as an active, interpretive process shaped by the brain’s predictions and prior experience rather than a direct readout of the external world.

The quote suggests that perception is constructive: the mind organizes and interprets sensory input to form a meaningful experience, so what we "see" depends on how our brain explains the information it receives.