Eyes provide some data, but then the brain starts drawing conclusions. Usually, that’s good enough, but when you feel like your eyes may be deceiving you, the brain has taken some “artistic liberties”.

  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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    13 hours ago

    you can say that about everything, and I mean literally everything. Nothing exists in your world that is not essentially just a signal your brain perceived.

    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      13·
      12 hours ago

      Diving into some deep philosophical waters, are we?

      If other people agree with my interpretation of the world, that’s good enough for me. Who knows if it’s real or not. It’s not like I have the means to figure that out.

      If they say I’m seeing things and talking to people who don’t even exist, I might be having delusions, hallucinations or something. If that’s the case, it’s the brain doing something weird, and I might not be able to figure that out either.

      Either way, sounds kinda scary, but I don’t really see much that I could do about it.