The Brain!

Isn't the human brain just a magnificently stupid thing? After all, we tend to imagine that the brain somehow perceives the world at it is, but it really doesn't in any way.

We see, but that's just light bouncing off shit.

We hear, but that's just airwaves bouncing off shit.

We feel, but that's just reports from little nerve endings when WE bounce off shit.

We perceive the world vicariously, quite like how a game world is viewed through a computer screen. The really amazing part is how immersed we can get into a world that we're just looking at through a window and aren't really part of.

When you play a game like Skyrim, you're swallowed up by the experience, and you imagine that you're in the game, but when you look outside of the screen you can clearly see that you're looking at a brightly lit rectangle. But the great magic trick is that we don't realize that ALL life is like that.

In fact, I'd like to propose rather a different metaphor for the brain than one of an incredibly advanced computer; namely one of a rather mediocre daily newspaper.

"Hey, that sounds insane, just like everything else you write! And also, you're ugly!", you might say.

Shut up! I don't care about your opinions on my opinions or my appearance, I may respond.

So, anyway, the newspaper office, or brain, gets information from reporters, IE nerves, about what the hell is going on. Just like a newspaper, your brain is pretty half-arsed when it comes to fact checking. It basically has a look at the information and decides if it's plausible or not. Apart from that, it sorta just assumes that the reporter isn't just making shit up.

And just like a newspaper, it gets facts mixed up, it gets hung up on its own prejudices and the stuff that it prints on the front pages is stuff you don't really have any reason to give a shit about. And just like any disreputable rag, it panders to the reader's, in this case your, prejudices, so it only provides information twisted to fit in with your own view of the world.

Rather stupid, the whole thing, really.