Post by mjaviergonzalez5 on Jul 15, 2016 20:13:14 GMT
Essay 1:
“We already intimately know that the brain is a virtual simulator because of dreaming where everything is hallucinated by us, even without us knowing how and why we are doing it” (Lane 106). This shows how our minds play tricks on us we believe our own imaginations, making it seem that dreams are really happening to us but “Only when wake up we knowledge everything that accrued in the dream was simulated by us” (Disneyland film). Also “We see, hear, touch, and smell are the results of how our central nervous system processes both external and internal stimuli and then reconstructs a virtual environment in which we react accordingly”( lane 106). We use all four sense to tell our minds what are environment is. Our senses can sometimes play tricks on us for example in the film Disneyland of consciousness when the narrator went on the pirates of the Caribbean ride he saw one pirate over hanging on the bridge, he believed that the pirate made eye contact with him which made him believe the pirate was real person. Later the narrator realized the light of the ride played a trick on his eyes making him believed the pirate was real. In result the theory of consciousness is how our minds play tricks on us making us believe some events are true but in reality they are not.
Essay 2:
“The brain tricks us into believing its own machinations as something that is not sui generis. All this trickery does serve one underlying purpose: keeping our organism intact long enough to recapitulate itself” (lane 102). This shows that the brain tricks us in believing certain situations are real but in reality it’s just an illusion. For example the experiment of Siegel seeing a demon. During this experiment Siegel was seeing a demon “ The near toxic dose of the mescaline I have ingested by drinking peyote all night kept the demon alive for many seconds, long enough to see” (lane 100). Later did Siegel realize “The demon was nothing than the surprised of a disturbing image spontaneously retrieved from memory. Rather than feeling disappointed that a “real” Demon did not exist, I was surprised and humbled to discover that internal images can be powerful enough to be mistaken for external ones. Disturbing images have a way of burrowing their way into our memories, even after a single exposure. This shows how our brains are made up of memories. When something accrues memories from our past always come to play.
“We already intimately know that the brain is a virtual simulator because of dreaming where everything is hallucinated by us, even without us knowing how and why we are doing it” (Lane 106). This shows how our minds play tricks on us we believe our own imaginations, making it seem that dreams are really happening to us but “Only when wake up we knowledge everything that accrued in the dream was simulated by us” (Disneyland film). Also “We see, hear, touch, and smell are the results of how our central nervous system processes both external and internal stimuli and then reconstructs a virtual environment in which we react accordingly”( lane 106). We use all four sense to tell our minds what are environment is. Our senses can sometimes play tricks on us for example in the film Disneyland of consciousness when the narrator went on the pirates of the Caribbean ride he saw one pirate over hanging on the bridge, he believed that the pirate made eye contact with him which made him believe the pirate was real person. Later the narrator realized the light of the ride played a trick on his eyes making him believed the pirate was real. In result the theory of consciousness is how our minds play tricks on us making us believe some events are true but in reality they are not.
Essay 2:
“The brain tricks us into believing its own machinations as something that is not sui generis. All this trickery does serve one underlying purpose: keeping our organism intact long enough to recapitulate itself” (lane 102). This shows that the brain tricks us in believing certain situations are real but in reality it’s just an illusion. For example the experiment of Siegel seeing a demon. During this experiment Siegel was seeing a demon “ The near toxic dose of the mescaline I have ingested by drinking peyote all night kept the demon alive for many seconds, long enough to see” (lane 100). Later did Siegel realize “The demon was nothing than the surprised of a disturbing image spontaneously retrieved from memory. Rather than feeling disappointed that a “real” Demon did not exist, I was surprised and humbled to discover that internal images can be powerful enough to be mistaken for external ones. Disturbing images have a way of burrowing their way into our memories, even after a single exposure. This shows how our brains are made up of memories. When something accrues memories from our past always come to play.