How does the brain create reality?
How does the brain create reality?
Through both our senses and interaction with reality.
Simply:
In concert with the focus of our conscious, our raw perceptions come together to construct neural networks. Using past experiences, the mind might also fill in (with the representations of other neural networks) where our senses have not yet perceived, or, to elaborate with other conceptual information. As a result, your understood reality might be slightly different than mine, since we have different, but similar (sharing the same reality), “libraries” of constructed neural networks.
Thus, neural networks are constructed and represent understood reality. If one of these networks are later stimulated/activated, we would see, act, or otherwise experience what the network represents. This may not be, and probably isn’t, a complete or accurate version of actual reality. It is just a start. Interaction with reality improves, as the network is revised, our neural network understanding of reality over time. Our conscious participates in permitting/enabling those revisions.
