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The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Perception
In reality, there's no particular relationship between what you're experiencing in VR and what's happening in the world. Whereas in our own internal VR, there is a fairly tight relationship. And that's because we wouldn't have survived if there wasn't. In normal perception, we see the world as it is useful for us to see it. We often use the term perception as a kind of controlled hallucination. So our perception is very functional, whereas virtual reality can be completely divorced from what's out there.
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