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how does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
“That in which we believe is conscious, turns out to be, under close inspection, unconscious”. The previously mentioned quote is a good description of how our brains trick us. After further researching, in “Is The universe An App’, I found various examples of how the brain can trick people. To name a couple examples, The Pirates of the Caribbean and staring war between visitor and pirate, and the bodiless head and crystal ball incident at The haunted Mansion. In the excerpt, during the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, “I looked on one pirate overhanging from the bridge who appeared to look me right in the eye… I was so convinced that the apparent audio-animatronic was an actor dressed in costume that I refused to believe otherwise… several years later, I realized that it was the lighting that had played tricks on my eyes”. In summary, your brain made you believe the robot was a real pirate actor because of what you had visually comprehended before, during, and after the robot. Similarly, vision was the misleading culprit when a friend of yours “got the creeps, since he assumed that the head (sans a body) within the crystal ball was a real person. He hadn’t realized how far holographic technology had come… and couldn’t imagine that it was merely a vaporous projection”.
We benefit from our brain tricking us when it comes to genetic survival because “any reproducing DNA that can develop a virtual simulator within itself has a huge advantage over a genetic strand that cannot”. Being able to virtually simulate is a very important tool in evolving and unlocking more of the unsolved mysteries of the world and the inhabitants of it. Without the ability to develop a virtual simulator within ourselves, we would not be able to come up with ideas and answers that could ultimately increase our chance in survival at this continuous war with life. For example, hypothetically speaking, if we were able to reverse engineer the human brain, then we could potentially manipulate consciousness and successfully transfer the consciousness from an animate object to an inanimate object; we could potentially evolve into robots.
how does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
“That in which we believe is conscious, turns out to be, under close inspection, unconscious”. The previously mentioned quote is a good description of how our brains trick us. After further researching, in “Is The universe An App’, I found various examples of how the brain can trick people. To name a couple examples, The Pirates of the Caribbean and staring war between visitor and pirate, and the bodiless head and crystal ball incident at The haunted Mansion. In the excerpt, during the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, “I looked on one pirate overhanging from the bridge who appeared to look me right in the eye… I was so convinced that the apparent audio-animatronic was an actor dressed in costume that I refused to believe otherwise… several years later, I realized that it was the lighting that had played tricks on my eyes”. In summary, your brain made you believe the robot was a real pirate actor because of what you had visually comprehended before, during, and after the robot. Similarly, vision was the misleading culprit when a friend of yours “got the creeps, since he assumed that the head (sans a body) within the crystal ball was a real person. He hadn’t realized how far holographic technology had come… and couldn’t imagine that it was merely a vaporous projection”.
We benefit from our brain tricking us when it comes to genetic survival because “any reproducing DNA that can develop a virtual simulator within itself has a huge advantage over a genetic strand that cannot”. Being able to virtually simulate is a very important tool in evolving and unlocking more of the unsolved mysteries of the world and the inhabitants of it. Without the ability to develop a virtual simulator within ourselves, we would not be able to come up with ideas and answers that could ultimately increase our chance in survival at this continuous war with life. For example, hypothetically speaking, if we were able to reverse engineer the human brain, then we could potentially manipulate consciousness and successfully transfer the consciousness from an animate object to an inanimate object; we could potentially evolve into robots.