[famouswaffles]

There is no "reality" for you either. Everything you perceive is a pleasant model based fabrication of data the brain receives. This is why you see a second tick by faster when you suddenly look at the clock. This is why it seems you see something when you shift your eyes quickly instead of the completely black you should be seeing. This is why most will not see what they should be seeing here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4

Every memory you store is part-fabrication too. Only what the brain perceives as "key" is stored, scaffolded by made up events. Every memory you retrieve is even more fabrication because the brain rewrites memories every time they're recalled. This is why implanting false memories is extremely easy and why leading questions work so well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_mall_technique

The vast majority of what you know and perceive was not derived from first principles.

Make no mistake here, you are working off a model of reality too.