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I recently watched a video by Lex Fridman on his podcast with Joscha Bach, which really got me thinking on what we see versus what we actually percieve.

Theory

Duality is the concept where the mind and body are on different levels of abstraction. We can look at it like this, the brain is a huge neural architecture made up of multiple neurons and synapses and its primary task is to receive the massive amount of input data from the sense organs, process it and produce output in terms of "actions". According to Bach, the brain has no idea on what the outer world really looks like, as it receives information in the form of signals. When the structure of the system becomes complicated and at the same time it has access to this huge database of continuously flowing information the brain starts to imagine what it would feel like to exist in the outside world.

According to Bach, the brain creates this entity called "self" or "mind". The job of this entity is to figure out what the exterior world looks and fells like. The brain then starts to write a story in multimedia, where the entity is the subject and the processed data is the environment. And you, yes the person reading this is nothing but the mere form of entity that the brain created to figure out the massive input of data. "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself."

We are nothing more than a protagonist of this story that the brain came up with. We neither have access to the outer world nor do we clearly understand what actually is happening.

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