Projecting Images Directly into the Brain, Bypassing the Eyes

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This could be misleading. It is analogous to first projecting movie clips onto 3 different slightly distorted mirrors, then map the output of each individual mirror (the dictionary for that individual mirror). Finally, project a new movie clip onto one of the slightly distorted mirrors, use the dictionary for that mirror to reconstruct something resembling the original input to the mirror.

Is a mirror image real? It can give the semblance of something real, but most people can distinguish between the real and a mirror image; often scientist cannot.

Cue dystopian novel where all children are genetically manipulated to be light pulse controllable.

Not just that, think of the torture that could be performed when you can't shut your eyes to ignore images.

Sort of tangentially relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/573/

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“What is real? How do you define ‘real’? If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste, and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.”

— The Matrix, 1999

"Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?"

-- George Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, 1713

And if a black hole falls into another black hole and no LIGO was listening, did it really produce a gravitational wave?

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