The world seems to be outside my brain. In actual fact, the world is inside my brain. How, scientifically?

Question

Another name for matter is illusion.

Answer 1

No, in actual fact, the world is OUTSIDE your brain; what is "inside" your brain (i.e. processed by your brain) is information from outside. You'll never be able to perceive the outside just as it is, because the outside is mediated to you by your senses and by the brain. some kinds of perception involve more "high-end" (ie cognitive) brain processing than others, but still, everything has some degree of processing.

So although the actual world is outside, it takes perception, inference, and theory for us to get better at saying what it is really like. still, we do a pretty good job: we don't walk into moving traffic, we don't fall off cliffs, we don't eat putrid food, etc. -- i.e. through evolution, our senses have evolved to give us a meaningful enough picture of the outside world for us to make a go of it.

the fact that we've developed such great science to boot is just icing on the cake!

Answer 2

This is a question which has bugged philosophers for a long, long time. In their terms, what is the relationship between the subjective universe of phenomena which occurs to each person (eg inside your brain) and whatever seems to be "out there?"

The modern point of view, which has developed over centuries of systematic and nonsystematic experimentation and observation with altered perception, is: the biological machinery of the nerves delivers sensations to the brain, where they are processed and assembled into perceptions, which are perceived by other parts of the brain in much the way that the lower level senses work. The specific ways in which the processing occurs--that is, what meaning you apply to a set of raw signals--is somewhat variable, and thusfar we can only really assume that (for example) the set of brain responses to the color "red" is about the same for most people. Nonetheless, we have identified roughly which portions of the brain control which processes, though the specifics and uniformity of the wiring are still unclear.

Answer 3

Your question is bewitching in the language it uses.

You used a computer to post the question on the Internet. The computer has a certain weight, a certain shape, a certain chemical composition.

If someone cut open your skull, pulled out your brain and searched for your computer, they would not find it. In fact, chances are your skull is too small for your computer to fit inside of it!

There is not a lot of agreement among neuroscientists concerning how the "outside" world happens (is represented by? is encoded in?) the brain.

When you look at your computer screen, myriads of photons fly from the screen through your eyes where they interact with chemicals to cause nerve cells to fire and eventually you may tell someone you "see" something on your computer screen.

How the physical world is experienced "in awareness" is a current Big Mystery in science. Lots of people are thinking about it, but there is nothing approaching a scientific consensus.

Maybe you will be the one to figure it out.

Answer 4

The world is indeed outside your brain, but it is in your brain where you interpret the information signals coming in through your senses. Your perception of the world exists in your brain not the actual world itself.

Answer 5

Quantum Theory of Consciousness:

Two views of the consciousness.

1.Consciousness is real but nonphyslcal.
2.Consciousness is connected to physical reality .
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1. Descartes confirmed: “ I think, therefore I am “
2.When Zen/Tibetan Buddhist monks, trained in meditation, begin
conscious awareness, the "I think not, therefore I am"
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The man acts: 1) usually under logic program,
2) sometimes on intuition (unconsciousnessly).
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Dualism.
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Brain of a man approximately consists of sixteen milliards neurons.
All of them form the system that manages human body.
That is why, it is of no wonder, that with the work of all the
sixteen milliards neutrons of brain, a man cannot catch a single impulse of
Electron, Quantum of light, his God:
(mass of electron is equal 10^-31 kg., charge of electron is equal 10^-19 k.)
Quantum of light, Spiritual particle, which had created us, turned out to be under control
of the material existence. However, the spiritual particle aspires to establish its supremacy
over material nature. And the possibilities to reign over material nature are limited.
The expansion of the possibilities of the development of spiritual particle is connected
with the creation of specific (vacuum) conditions. These conditions are reached
as a result of constant religious practice.
To perceive the universe, to perceive the spiritual essence, it is necessary
for the man to take possession of religious practice.
PRACTICE. THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
We pray the GOD and we do not realize that HE is inside us.
Each of us carries in himself the SPIRITUAL PARTICLE
(QUANTUM OF LIGHT - AN ELECTRON).
But we do not realize that HE is inside us.
Behind the habitual forces of nature there is one force hidden - a spiritual one (h - e).
But ITS action is almost completely disguised with the other forces
(mechanical, electromagnetic, nuclear, chemical and others),
therefore it remains unnoticed in an ordinary processes.
But God never operates outside of natural principles.
There are the processes in which He reveals himself.
Therefore, His disclosing is a technical question.
How can we learn it?
For this purpose it is necessary to create the following effects in our computer-brain:
A). Nonlinear effect
B). Superconducting effect
C). Holographic effect
D). Vacuum effect.
Nobody, except us, can make this technical work.
Only we (by the constant, thin, internal practice) can create conditions for these effects.
This practice has called "a Religious practice".
In this lies an essence of Religion - to establish the communication of a Human being with his Divine origin.
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Our computer-brain works on a dualistic basis.
In a usual daily life all we do is done logically, under an influence of our feelings.
On the other hand, in a religious practice we learn to perceive and to operate:
1) Without the participation of the sense organs.
2) Without the participation of the logic mental processes.
When these conditions will be created, then the opportunity to operate will be given
to a QUANTUM OF LIGHT (AN ELECTRON), to OUR DIVINE ESSENCE.
We will acquire new forces, new abilities.
Once again.
An electron's mass is 10^-28gr . The size is 10^-13sm. A charge is 10^-19k .
With these characteristics it is hard for IT to appear.
Therefore it is clear, why we don't know IT in our ordinary life.
ITS cognition is achieved by a very hard, thin and laborious work.
This work demands of a person to be devoted to it.
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On the question:
What inhale the Life in formulas and equations ?
What must be present in a body to make it alive ?
The answer is:
Soul. Quantum of Light.
Because, from all particles, only and only the quantum of light is a privileged particle.
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Best wishes.
Socratus

Answer 6

Actually ah wrong!LOL
Open your eyes and you are now in reality closes your eyes and now your are in fantasy.
I wrote abook called reality i wrote a five page chapter on finding yourself.
That's what you are doing ;)
All matter around you is so your brain can conceive that matter.
If you live in subconscious any matter is an illusion.
But to say that a pen is dropped when you did not drop it is a lie:-O
Close your eyes to reality and live in fantasy.
The link between fantasy and this reality is a lie.
If i tell my mother i am going to clean my room and don't, i live in fantasy but she dont!(17 joshua washburn)

Answer 7

What's inside your brain is a "map" of reality.

Answer 8

I'm a solipsist and so am I.