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Nope. You can “see” all kinds of things that aren’t there, because your brain has yet to notice anything forcefully telling you otherwise. This happens all the
by erikpukinskis 7y ago
Nope. You can “see” all kinds of things that aren’t there, because
your brain has yet to notice anything forcefully telling you otherwise. This happens all the time and you’d have no way to notice it.
Even when some new information forcefully comes into play, your brain is often able to adjust your memory so you believe you knew it along, so long as the initial percept is fresh enough and had enough uncertainty.
All of this feels to you like a perfect unbroken stream of direct seeing but it is an illusion. You don’t see anything directly, you get fuzzy spurts of probability and turn it into your world in your mind. A world that’s likely to be unrecognizable to the next person.