Comment by Salgat
1 year ago
I've always seen this as simply convincing hallucinations rather than reality (the brain is able to believe some rather outlandish things after all). For example, the folks who say they live whole lives in a dream, when in reality their brain simply had a strong perception of having lived a whole life, without any of the actual experience beyond a few brief false memories, which is quite different.
Is that a meaningful difference? We are only our memories. How they were created doesn't change the experience of their recall.
Well yeah, one is something you actually experienced, the other is just the false impression that you experienced something you didn't.
When it comes to experience I'm not sure that matters