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The simulation idea doesn’t work only because people apply it incorrectly. Our brains do in fact create our experiences with no contact to the world outside our bodies, its our sensory organs that give data to the brain to create our perception of experiencing things.

We are all partly made of simulators, but knowing this changes nothing for each of us since we can start associating ourselves with a larger force of nature that happens when we group ourselves together for changes we want to see in the world.

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TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Our brains do in fact create our experiences with no contact to the world outside our bodies, its our sensory organs that give data to the brain to create our perception of experiencing things.

Ehhh… The claim that there’s a clear delineation between the central and peripheral nervous system is generally just a byproduct of how we teach anatomy. The more we understand about cognitive science and anatomy in general, the further we get away from the old understanding of the cns when it was treated almost like a computer that runs a machine.

I think it kinda depends on how you define an experience, but you’re kinda edging into an old debate known as the mind body problem in cognitive science and philosophy.

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- confuser@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  None of that suggests this can’t be the case though.
  
  What I’m saying is that for example, dreams are not real, and yet they can and often are indistinguishable from reality, many even have dreams where they are aware they are dreaming and can control them the same way we can control what we do while awake.
  
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  - TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    What I’m saying is that for example, dreams are not real, and yet they can and often are indistinguishable from reality, many even have dreams where they are aware they are dreaming and can control them the same way we can control what we do while awake.
    
    I think to adopt that argument you have to be operating on some preconceived assumptions.
    
    Dreams are “real”, in the sense that they are propagated by measurable physical phenomena. Just because some people can experience an amount of choice in their dreams, does not mean they are interacting with “reality”.
    
    This is only possible because we have bodily systems for producing experiences
    
    Again… Experiences needs to be defined. There are a lot of theories about how we engage with the world around us in both a physical and metaphysical way.
    
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    confuser@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Dreaming is reality unconstrained by sensory input
    
    Reality is dreaming constrained by sensory input
    
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