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water  ·  3808 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Sound You Can't Unhear (And What It Says About Your Brain)

    Roughly 80% of the information you think you "see" and "hear" are synthesized by your brain based on, as they say, prior information.

and the brain has a terrible memory at that.

So how much of consciousness is actually real? Our emotions, our passions, our desires... All suspended in delusions, but then reinforced by our sense of "self"...