[TaylorAlexander]

Yeah I also hadn’t but it makes sense. Just like all output from an LLM is a “hallucination” but we have a tendency to only call it a hallucination when something looks wrong about the result, we forget that our conscious lived experience is a hallucination based on a bunch of abstract sensory data that our brain fuses in to a world state experience. It’s obvious when we are asleep that dreams are hallucinations, but it is less obvious that the conscious experience is too.

[siavosh]

Agree that the whole senate field is a type of hallucination. But when it comes to thoughts appearing in our minds their transitions are much more classically hallucination like. I became aware of this during meditation. It has a strange intoxicating quality where you have to figuratively pinch yourself to notice how bizarrely one thought transitions to a thought in the periphery of your attention.