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Can You Trust Your Own Brain? A Neuroscientist Explains | Heather Berlin

November 21st, 2023 at 10:38PM

Ohhh... Reality's not an illusion. Our perception of it is. Interesting. I have no idea how we'd ever form the concept "illusion", but it's interesting nonetheless. If our perception of reality is illusory by nature, then reality is real but our "sensory construct" of it is not, and that eternal disconnect, or at least the "feeling" of isolation from "real reality", actually does explain a lot. Does "real reality" not include the "perception boxes" of others, though? I mean, it's "in here" to them, but it's "out there" to me. 😂 I think I should request a more comforting illusory explanation, please. 😁