Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
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Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. | Quanta Magazine
The debate over “is it real or fake” is somewhat ironic, because so much of what we experience as reality even within our own bodies is actually simulation.
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When you wake each morning, you not only become freshly aware of your thoughts, you also resituate yourself in your body. We don’t experience the world purely in our minds, but as ‘embodied agents’, says Roy Salomon, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel. Your sense of self is as connected to your limbs and guts as to the
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