[MD] Reet and the Weakest Link

[Platt Holden]

> 
> {Ron]
> > the truth is only known to you.
> > It's about developing that within yourself
> > not a concrete definition that is
> > universally agreed upon.
> 
> Platt:
> But as you know, Buddhists and others here and elsewhere claim 
> the "self" is just an illusion. I guess this means anything you-the- 
> illusion believe to be true is also just an illusion. Makes one wonder
> how 
> we manage to get through the day -- but since "we" and "days" are 
> illusions, too, we can only conclude that reality is but a dream. But, 
> somehow I think it would be hard to convince a survivor of a suicide
> bomber 
> that her experience was just a figment of her imagination.    
> 
> Ron:
> an illusion is a perception not a hallucination.
> 
> Typically when we use the term illusion often we conceptualize it as a 
> 
> hallucination. Something that does not exist. This is not so.

Merriam-Webster:

2 a (1): a misleading image presented to the vision (2): something that 
deceives or misleads intellectually b (1): perception of something 
objectively existing in such a way as to cause misinterpretation of its 
actual nature (2)

[Ron]
> wikipedia defines ; The term illusion refers to a specific form of
> sensory distortion. Unlike a hallucination
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination> , which is a distortion in
> the absence of a stimulus, an illusion describes a misinterpretation of
> a true sensation. For example, hearing voices regardless of the
> environment would be a hallucination, whereas hearing voices in the
> sound of running water (or other auditory source) would be an illusion.
> 
> The human brain constructs a world inside our head based on what it
> samples from the surrounding environment. However sometimes it tries to
> organise this information it thinks best while other times it fills in
> the gaps. This way in which our brain works is the basis of an illusion.
> 
> When we say objective reality is an illusion we are not saying that
> stimuli does not exist, we are saying that stimuli perceived as 
> 
> Things in themselves are a sensory distortion.
> 
>  Illusions exploit the assumptions about the physical world.  

[Platt]
Who or what sees the world the brain constructs?