Monday, November 5, 2018

Reality! What a Concept!

This TED talk...

"Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality"... is an indication that, in the area of consciousness, science has finally caught up to Buddha, and other Hindu scholars, or for that matter to the 1965 work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (The Phenomenology of Perception) in observing that life is a narrative first, and fact only later.

The optical cortex, for one example, gets only 10% of its nerve input from the optical nerve (the eyes). Memory and language dominate the remaining 90% of its connections.

The "reality" we hallucinate bears the same relationship to actual reality that the desktop on your computer has to what's actually going on in the central processor, disk and memory.


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