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I believe people with psychedelic experiences can attest to the controlled hallucination theory of consciousness. But only those with a materialist world view while idealists may posit souls or alternate realities.

Imagination is also a part in probabilistic decision making, an unhinged prediction machine.

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The fact that we experience what is being fed to 'us' by the various hardware devices, and not reality itself, is not controversial. The question is, what is the nature of the 'experiencer'?

See lobotomies and brain damage. See eye and nerve damage. See people with syndromes or developmental disorders.

The experiencer is the sum of your body's processes. It's what it feels like to be your body. To be connected to all your parts. To have been raised and taught to react, to have instincts and decision making circuits based on these. It's a material thing. Vision is the sense of eye, thought is the speculative sense of sensing, etc.

You are describing the experience, not the experiencer. The experience is indeed the sum of your body's processes.

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