"The modern neuroscientists' notion that what we experience as sight, for example, is actually a simulation by the visual cortex of the brain. When light from an external object impinges on our visual receptors, only 10 percent of the information contained in the visual stimulus - of what we think we are seeing - is needed in order for the brain to construct an internal image or representation of it. The other 90 percent of that image is the result of simulations produced by the brain's own activities. That is, 90 percent of the object we "see" is made up! It is simply the coming together of electro-chemical signals which then interact with our internal memories and cognition in a complex network of neuropathways. Everything is happening inside this skull. We have never actually seen the world "out there." This is true for all senses. In short, we are stuck in a simulated world created by our consciousness." #Consciousness #Perception #Reality
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