science

That headline is cringe to it's core, but that aside, who would possibly be an opponent of this concept? I thought it was just universally understood that our individual senses can lie to us and that collective reality with repeatable experimentation is our only source for basis in fact.

FFS as a species we've been recording this same conversation towards this same conclusion for thousands of years.

Nobody discovered fuck all with this assertion.

EDIT: I shouldn't have come on this strong, my apologies, it's perfectly fine to study and reiterate this work and it's good that they're tying it to modern historic examples.

I thought the article did a good job of introducing the fact that consciousness and perception are a hallucination, a trick of the mind as it assembles various datastreams and updates the model constantly. "Reality is a Lego tower all of us continuously assemble, fix, and adjust bit by bit." This is a standard neuroscience perspective. It's as 'true' as anything else we know about the brain.

And then ... well it was some evocative writing, but I think they failed to bring home the final point. When they say 'reality', they mean 'society'. Just substitute that word, and suddenly the whole article makes more sense, is relevant, and has teeth. They were trying to be poetic, when a more direct statement about the cha0s in our streets would have been more effective.

The title does suck.

What a stupid headline for a 300-year-old idea

PopMech has been too heavy on the pop side for too long. This is just Plato's cave all over again.

Do I still have to go to work tomorrow?

Paywalled article. Here is a cached version. https://archive.is/eKlVv

Yes our brains make "sense" of things. If you've taken Salvia you'll know this (i haven't).

This is very obviously true in my hallucination of reality.

If this is The Matrix, then MAGA is gonna be really upset. They don’t even know it.

So the simulation theory has a grain of truth to it? Just not in the way we thought?