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Anonymous01/22/26, 23:34No.16897011
scientists believe your brain edits reality before you're aware of it in a way that you never experience raw reality; only a delayed, curated version of it
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Anon01/23/26, 00:00No.16897029
That's to be expected since the brain is amalgamating sensory input and hallucinating some of the gaps (literally how your vision works) in order to present it to you in as sensible a way as possible.
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Anon01/23/26, 00:03No.16897033
and it does it for free
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Anon01/23/26, 00:34No.16897048
>Using a technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), it is possible to stimulate the left or right brain motor centers in a subject’s brain, at the experimenter’s discretion. A properly sculpted TMS signal to the right motor center will cause a twitch of the left wrist, while a properly sculpted TMS signal to the left motor center will cause a twitch of the right wrist. Alvaro Pascual-Leone used this technique ingeniously in a simple experiment that has profound implications. He asked subjects, upon receiving a cue, to decide whether they wanted to twitch their right or their left wrist. Then they were instructed to act out their intention upon receiving an additional cue. The subjects were in a brain scanner, so the experimenter could watch their motor areas preparing the twitch. If they had decided to twitch their right wrist, their left motor area was active; if they decided to twitch their left wrist, their right motor area was active. It was possible, in this way, to predict what choice had been made before any motion occurred.
>Now comes a revealing twist. Occasionally Pascual-Leone would apply a TMS signal to contradict (and, it turns out, override) the subject’s choice. The subject’s twitch would then be the one that TMS imposed, rather than the one he or she originally chose. The remarkable thing is how the subjects explained what had happened. They did not report that some external force had possessed them. Rather, they said, “I changed my mind.”
—Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality, Frank Wilczek.
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Anon01/23/26, 00:38No.16897051
yeah duh.
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Anon01/23/26, 01:19No.16897068
they haven't done DMT
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Anon01/23/26, 04:07No.16897111
Holy shit you're retarded if you needed a scientist to tell you that, most people figure that out by the time they're 12.
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Anon01/23/26, 07:12No.16897169
what is she using the two fingers for, is this some type of VR porn?
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Anon01/23/26, 07:13No.16897170
reality edits itself even without your brain
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Anon01/23/26, 08:27No.16897187
What does it mean to experience raw reality? Read Kant.
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Anon01/23/26, 09:53No.16897209
everybody is tripping all the time
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Anon01/23/26, 13:17No.16897298
>scientists believe your brain edits reality before you're aware of it in a way that you never experience raw reality; only a delayed, curated version of it
I don't know if any scientist actually says this, but I wouldn't be surprised. Most of them are cretins, philosophically speaking, hence such absurd nonsense.
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Anon01/23/26, 23:43No.16897728
as you watched superman cartoons as a kid you might make similar visuals up in familiar environment
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Anon01/24/26, 06:28No.16897926
OP isn't gay, it is just his brain.
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Anon01/24/26, 07:34No.16897950
>scientists believe
I should've stopped reading there.They're not scientists, they're just fools with vain philosophy. This is more common than most people want to admit too, philosophers LARPing as scientists.
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Anon01/24/26, 08:45No.16897973
The human brain can process an image that the eye has seen in as little as 13 milliseconds (0.013 seconds). This rapid speed indicates that the brain can process visual information at a rate of roughly 75 frames per second. With the 750MB cell buffer, we could use a HDMI cable.
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Anon01/24/26, 09:50No.16897994
It's even a step beyond that. All of vision is a hallucination. What you experience as vision is a process that exists entirely independent from the eyes, it generates its own stream of data.Information from the eyes "disturbs" this data stream, and what you experience as eyesight are the "negatives" from those disturbances. Your brain tries to maintain a very continuous and stable state of this "vision" stream, like a body of water that is completely still. Anything that disturbs the surfaces forms waves and ripples, and the brain's visual area is like a pond that has a very specific shape, so that the waves and ripples that form from information coming from the eyes, create patterns on the water's surface that are reliable representations of how the outside world looks.People think that what we experience as vision are the things that cause these disturbances, that we come into contact with reality. But what we really experience as vision is the pond, that "system" in the brain itself, that is completely detached from what happens in the outside world.This is why serotonergic psychedelic drugs create their unique brand of hallucinations because they do two things. One is that they rerout intrinsic brain activity through the visual system, so all kinds of shit that is happening in your brain disturbs this "water surface" and you experience those disturbances through your senses. The other is that normally, your brain doesn't let you see the "water surface" of the pond, only the disturbances, but serotonergic psychedelics remove this block, and just lets the "water surface" send signals as much as it pleases, so you end up seeing geometric shapes because that's what the visual area is structured like. So you're literally seeing the organization of cells in your visual area.
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Anon01/24/26, 09:56No.16897997
>What you experience as vision is a process that exists entirely independent from the eyes
The chatbot is broken.
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Anon01/24/26, 11:54No.16898057
>scientists
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Anon01/24/26, 12:16No.16898068
pretty cool hey
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Anon01/24/26, 13:15No.16898105
>Optical illusions
>Blind spot
>Saccadic masking
It's rather obvious that everything we perceive is constructed
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Anon01/24/26, 13:19No.16898109
Who would have thought that a bunch of people on a "science" board would be getting unironically getting filtered by the concept of something depending on multiple factors.
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Anon01/24/26, 13:43No.16898124
>sounds like you having a stroke
>hope you get that sorted gramps
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Anon01/24/26, 14:12No.16898136
Perception is the sole basis for knowing what it means for something to be at all, let alone what it means for something to be the case. If perception isn't real, nothing is real and the distinction is meaningless. Word thinkers, with their lukewarm intellects, just have this weird disease where they keep over-abstracting a concept until it becomes completely divorced from the context that spawned it. So they start to prattle about some kind of "raw reality" that is somehow more real than anything the word 'real' has ever meant. They can't actually conceive of what this hypothetical "raw reality" is like - by definition, it can't be like anything - but they can use this empty symbol to form empty phrases to deny reality and try to supplant it with a fabricated abstraction.
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Anon01/24/26, 15:57No.16898194
It's pretty fascinating. Sense of continuity of mind and self is the result of the brain working overtime to provide a (seemingly) seamless perceptual experience and also highly dependent on our imperfect memories.
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Anon01/24/26, 18:15No.16898294
thanks for the update captain obvious
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Anon01/28/26, 02:42No.16900541
>Scientists confirming what religious people have known for ages.
AGAIN
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Anon01/28/26, 02:51No.16900548
>Scientists confirming what religious people have known for ages.
AGAIN
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Anon01/28/26, 13:46No.16900729
Obviously. You don't need scientists to tell you that.
