On 9/4/2017 12:54 PM, smitra wrote:
Reply to everyone.
What we experience is not the physical world but a simulation of it by
our brain. So, even if we assume that there exists a "primary"
physical world, we're not really living in one, we're at most living
in a World that's simulated inside it.
The fact that our primary experiences derive from a simulation allows
magicians to earn a living. If you walk into your living room, what
you see, what you experience is not the living room as it exists right
now, it is almost entirely a reconstruction based on cached data from
your memory.
We're never mistaken about what experience we're having, but we're often
mistaken about the physical world - which is why we tend to regard it as
more real.
Brent
Real time processing of data would be computationally infeasible, and
we need to keep in mind that the brain evolved from a simple nervous
system. In each step in the evolution where this became more complex,
there would never be a system that could render a precise picture of
the World, it was only ever about getting to a better response giving
the inputs. And in principle all inputs from now and some time ago can
contain useful information.
So, this way we ended up with a brain that ends up simulating the
World, the simulation is what we are (the set of everything we
experience is an OM that defines us).
Saibal
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