THEBAFFLED BRAIN
In the sci-fi movie The Matrix, people lie motionless in pods of nutrients while they “dream” that they are living normal lives in the year 1999. Their version of reality is being fed into their brains by advanced computers to keep them passive slaves of a malevolent cyber-intelligence. They see what their brains are stimulated to see, not what is there.
Look around you. What do you isn’t all fantasy. Given sufficient knowledge of the human brain, it would be possible to make people see whatever you wanted them to see, rather than what was in front of their eyes. That’s because we see with our brains, not with our eyes. Make the right nerve cells fire in the right order, and we can’t tell the difference between a real cat and one that exists only in our minds.
