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REALITY IS A CONTROLLED HALLUCINATION.LEONARD SUSSKIND

REALITY IS A CONTROLLED HALLUCINATION — LEONARD SUSSKIND You're not seeing the world right now — you're hallucinating it. Your brain does not passively receive reality; it actively constructs a simulation based on limited, noisy sensory data and past predictions. From blind spots your mind automatically fills in, to colors that don’t physically exist in the external world, to the flexible and edited flow of time itself — everything you experience is a controlled hallucination generated by your neural networks. In this deep dive into neuroscience and perception, we explore how the brain acts as a prediction machine — constantly generating a model of reality and only updating it when incoming sensory evidence contradicts expectations. We examine change blindness, the rubber hand illusion, predictive coding, and why evolution optimized perception for survival — not for truth. The implications are profound: consciousness itself may be nothing more than the experience of the brain’s self-generated simulation. You are living inside a virtual reality created by three pounds of tissue inside your skull — and you can never step outside it. Welcome to the controlled hallucination you call reality. Topics Covered: • Why your brain fills in blind spots and peripheral vision • How color is constructed, not directly perceived • Predictive coding and Bayesian inference in the brain • The rubber hand illusion and body ownership • Why time perception is manipulated and edited • Dreams, psychedelics, and uncontrolled hallucinations • Different species, different perceived realities • Consciousness as a biological simulation