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by altruios 1091 days ago
> It all depends on what you define as the show

The show is the experience of being.

> I would prefer to think of the show as something that takes place outside of my head

All of your experiences occur in that brain meat-space, your vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, temperature, etc... all of that (experience of) is occurring in your head. We hope it is coordinated with some objective physical reality. There is no guarantee of that.

to quote C.S.Lewis ``` If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees. ```