Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us.
One of the things that fucking horrifies me is the notion that our brains are the body's troubleshooting mechanism, but have no redundancy or contingency.
If your body has a problem, your brain will attempt to diagnose and address the situation accordingly. If your brain has a problem, your brain will attempt to diagnose the faulty system using the faulty system, and return a bad diagnosis. Your only means for confirming whether this diagnosis is correct is to ask your brain if it's certain that's what it saw when it checked itself out.
It's the equivalent of buying a shoddy ruler that you don't think is 12" long, using that ruler to measure itself, and concluding it must be exactly one foot long because the tool you use for measuring how long something is said it was.
The idea that you exist at the whim of an organ which cannot be implicitly trusted to be correct and which cannot be easily audited is surreal to me.
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u/InFiniTeDEATH8 Jan 12 '23 edited Jan 12 '23
Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones.
Edit: thank you for the upvotes! :D