<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">On Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 at 3:00 AM, Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:</span></div><div class="protonmail_quote"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;">Our brain is a simulation, not sure why it is not understood by most people.</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;">I don't think it's true. Our brains are biological organs. I don't understand what you think they're simulations of.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><br></span></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;">We make up the world. Most of our conscious life is actually filling the gaps, confabulating to make sense of the sensory information we receive (highly filtered and selected) and our internal mental states.</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><br></span></div><div style=""><font color="#050505" face="inherit"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you're saying that our internal representations of the world are </span></font><font color="#050505" face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">inaccurate</span></font><font color="#050505" face="inherit"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and incomplete, I agree.</span></font></div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-Dave</div>
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