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What's your status?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Brain Is the Original Story Teller
We're protagonist of our own stories, as we hallucinate our world into being. That plays on very interesting ways in this kind of late capitalist world. The reason that we tell stories in the form that we do is because wee mimic how the brain process reality and turns it into the experience of our life. Most of what we experience right now s is hallucination. It's a predictiontat the brain's kind of putting there. You know, be i've been riting about irrationality for a long time now, and i really think this is kind of the ground zero of human rationality - beliefs which our status depends on.
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