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"Trippy" Reality (lemmy.world)
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https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_your_brain_hallucinates_your_conscious_reality

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/5-illusions-reveal-brain-warps-reality

https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/how-the-brain-interprets-reality-a-neuroscience-perspective

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I agree with you but in defense of the image in front of us, they still show atoms in the rest of the photo. I take that as the representation of “reality” and the commentary as being more about perception and not some alternate reality.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yes that's true, and I did think about this, but really this just makes the image even dumber, because we can see atoms nowadays too, and even if we couldn't, all our knowledge of them would still come from what this comic implies is our hallucination 🤔 kinda crazy to say that if you just zoom in on a hallucination it suddenly becomes real

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