(November 16, 2013 at 3:51 pm)max-greece Wrote: Pineapple,
Sort of yes but there is an element of attempting to open a person's eyes to the fact that they might be fooled or worse, fooling themselves.
That is a lot harder to achieve.
Most people think that they are truly themselves. By this I mean their idea of themselves includes all of their experiences, all of it add to their identity. Instead of understanding that it's a physiological machine (the brain) that constructs this idea of self through perception that is quite often faulty. So when they have an experience, they truly believe in it, a lot of people are less likely to think, "oh, my brain probably got that one wrong." They think, "no, this is a special experience, it must be real, it feels so real."
