Have you ever programmed a microcontroller? Like an MSP430 or something? Working on such low-level hardware taught me something about my own mind. When you wan

Have you ever programmed a microcontroller? Like an MSP430 or something? Working on such low-level hardware taught me something about my own mind. When you want to read data from say, a serial port or a camera, you point your program to where in the microcontroller's memory that data has been placed. Serial ports will usually have a dedicated buffer that you can read from a particular address, you see. A camera could also directly access memory and write its data there in your MCU's ram for you to read, at an address that you have a pointer to. What I learned about myself was that although it feels like I'm looking at a piece of paper with the words "I'm human" written on it, my consciousness main loop is not accessing my eyes, it's accessing the region of memory that my retinas have recently written image data to. A Boltzmann brain would have no trouble with this sort of hallucination.