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    The Brain’s Controlled Hallucination: How Neuroscience Shapes Reality

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    Explore how neuroscience defines reality as a controlled hallucination. Learn how the brain processes electrical oscillations to construct the world we perceive.

    The Brain’s Controlled Hallucination: How Neuroscience Shapes Reality

    The Brain’s Controlled Hallucination: How Neuroscience Shapes Reality最佳语录

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    Your brain isn't a window you're looking through, but more like a locked room that’s trying to guess what’s happening outside. Everything you perceive, from the color of the sky to the feeling of your own skin, is a creative act of your nervous system.

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    How do we perceive what we are ? Our body is made of molecules. We have biological structure made up of skin , skeleton etc., We are able to sense 3 dimensions and time. The neurons send the message from senses to brain. How brain constructs the outside world. How memory works. How consciousness unconscious mind work

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    知识来源
    Being You
    The active construction of the visual world
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    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5637165/
    How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World | Scientific American
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    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-constructs-the-outside-world/
    Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness | Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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    https://preview-www.nature.com/articles/nrn3292
    On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism - ScienceDirect
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005251

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    In neuroscience, a controlled hallucination refers to the brain's process of generating a best guess about the outside world. Since the brain sits in total darkness and silence inside the skull, it cannot see or hear directly. Instead, it creates internal patterns of activity to interpret the environment, essentially hallucinating a reality that is constrained and refined by the sensory data it receives.

    The brain functions like a locked room that never directly interacts with objects like roses or songs. It only processes electrical oscillations and chemical gradients that arrive through sensory channels. Rather than being a window that prints a faithful copy of reality, the brain uses these signals to guess what is happening outside, constructing the high-definition, three-dimensional movie we experience as our daily lives.

    According to the concept of reality construction, the brain does not act as a 3D printer that faithfully reproduces the external world. While we feel like we are looking through a window, we are actually experiencing internal patterns generated by the brain. This sensory processing means that our perception of solid objects, like a ceramic coffee mug, is an interpretation based on molecular collections rather than a direct view of the world.

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