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The dream, with rare exceptions, I perceive as reality, despite the absurdity of what I saw. In a dream, the place of action, time does not match, people in it may already be dead or those with whom you have never met. But it doesn't matter to the brain. This is as real to him as life is to him. I still have memories that I can't say for sure were real.
The trick of the brain is that it turns the objective into the subjective, that is, what do I mean ? The brain makes the world objective, understandable for itself.
Here's the question. If there is nothing in the brain other than a network of nerve impulses, then how does what we see, hear, and feel directly appear and where is it located? There is a significant difference between the view of a tree outside the window, which we can see right now, and a set of nerve impulses in a person's head. What causes us to perceive the configuration of nerve impulses in our brain as an image of a tree outside the window? What does the tree outside the window directly perceive and realize?�
These are all complex questions, and science can't answer them. This is because science does not have the tools to study the inner subjective world of a human (or robot, if it has one). Moreover, it is fundamentally impossible to establish the presence of consciousness, both in a robot and in a person. As for people, we simply conclude that because they are like me, they probably have the same consciousness as me, that they also see and feel the world. This conclusion is made simply by analogy: “others have the same thing as I do.” There is no direct evidence that the other person is also conscious. The same goes for artificial devices, such as a robot or computer. How can we determine whether a robot has consciousness or not? Even if it behaves exactly like a human being, it does not prove that there is something inside the robot that is aware of everything that happens to it. And even if he really will have consciousness, like an ordinary person, even in this case, there are no ways that would allow us to unequivocally say that this is so.
However, let's face the facts. I have consciousness. Despite the fact that my head is just a network of neurons with their signals, I am still aware of the world exactly as I am aware of it. And there is definitely a physical reality in the form of my body and brain, and there is my personal subjective reality, which represents my sensory experience. And these realities, although they depend on each other (if I damage my brain, my feelings will change), but they are not reduced to each other. The modern philosopher Ken Wilber suggested simply stating that there is an objective reality, of which our body is a representative, and there is a subjective reality, of which our entire sensory experience is a representative.
It is rather a question of how much the objective reality affects our subjective one. In fact, Monumetal Art has always had the task of influencing a person's consciousness, whether it is secular or religious. The same can be said about advertising movies and books for most people in modern times.In order to break away from all the information influence , it is necessary to move away from it for at least some time. �Because even people who are “enlightened” by the informative flow , and so let's say people who spend their whole lives doing art and actually solve the problem of how this or that “creation” should affect the psyche, have reflexes . Therefore, as a person, if I may say so, I can say that subjective self-consciousness is possible only somewhere far from the city in proud solitude.
We see this difference, which means that the brain also sees it. The word “imagination” is not quite a good word here, because it means that it has nothing to do with reality. At the same time, all our consciousness and perception are subjective. For example, we like some people, some people don't, and we have no idea why, but we try to explain to ourselves why, to understand the subjective rationally-and this, in fact, is impossible and these explanations are worthless (love has passed – tomatoes have wilted). On the other hand, you can enjoy traveling around the world, or you can read books about it. Both options don't make any rational sense, but the second one is easier to come by. Therefore, many people prefer to “move” their life into their thoughts, they are more pleasant to reason than to do something.
Our perception is emotional. It is said that if a person sees his mother (wife / cat) and does not “feel” the typical emotional response, he will think that this is not his mother, but someone similar to her or, in general, another person in her guise. With schizophrenia, it is impossible to convince a person, for example, if he has delusions of persecution, or greatness, or erotomanic delusions, etc. With a delirium of jealousy, the husband will wake up in the middle of the night and climb under the bed with a flashlight – to look for lovers, and their absence will not change his ideas in any way, he will “know” that his wife is confused almost with the whole city. Sometimes this turns into a delirium of persecution (after all, it interferes with this debauchery and they probably want to get rid of it), and some decide to play ahead of time and kill their wife before she does.