how does the mind accepts imagined experiences as equivalent to actual experiences?

Answer 1

A number of philosophers have argued in favour of the Dependency Thesis: if a subject sensorily imagines an F then he or she sensorily imagines from the inside perceptually experiencing an F in the imaginary world. They claim that it explains certain important features of imaginative experience, in brief: the fact that it is perspectival, the fact that it does not involve presentation of sensory qualities and the fact that mental images can serve a number of different imaginings. I argue that the Dependency Thesis is false and that, in any event, it does not have the explanatory credentials claimed for it. Some of the features of imaginative experience are incorrectly specified, namely the absence of presentation of sensory qualities. With a more precise idea of what we need to explain, I argue that the explanation should proceed by noting that imagination and perception have phenomenally similar contents and that this is to be explained in terms of the similar kinds of representations in play. I trace the consequences of my discussion for disjunctivist theories of perception, Berkeleian Idealism and the characterisation of knowing what an experience is like.

Answer 2

mind is vizualizing.the more out of touch of reality we become the more we believe what our mind is saying to us.divorcing reality from fantazy and we cannot determine which it is, we are in trouble,next stage we talk to ourselves aloud and are conversing with some imagined person.It is similar to "we are our own worst enemy".We conclude about the world something outside our selves,wrap our fears and emotions so then concluding,this or that is our enemy.Until someone questions about our imagined stance and convince us that we are basing our conclusions on fiction not fact.if one believes they are somebody shall we say Jesus Christ,they believe they are till somebody says show me proof.If that person is crazy they wander off in their reverie of actual experience making their imagined experience that actual experience.

Answer 3

That's the subconscious mind that does that. There's not much of a how... just that it does.