tually a clear picture, if you could trace the light coming into your eyes and then how that's translated into a signal and how that reaches your brain, if you could see that somehow separate from how your brain is processing it you would see it's just this big fuzzy approximate thing. Yeah and that would blow your mind. It's a good thing you can't see that. What's really happening is your brain is making you see clarity where it nonexists.

Let me tell you what's probably close to real. All right if I hold this object in my hand and I put all my focus on it there's a reasonably good chance that I'm seeing this very simple clean object in the middle of my field somewhat close to how it actually exists but everything in my peripheral I imagine is also clear but I'm not looking at it at the moment but probably it's all just invented. It's just sort of like this general canvas of invention that your brain is putting in there because your brain can't see everything clearly.

Here's where I learned this first. A tennis player who watches ball hit near a line and then you know there's an argument hey I saw it clearly hitting the line and somebody else says I clearly saw it outside. Which one of them is right? One saw it hit the line and one saw it missed the line. Which one was right? Now you say well how would I know I'm not there you're just making up this example. No there's an answer. There's an actual answer to the question. The answer is neither of them are right. Both of them are seeing an invention of their mind. Neither of them are seeing a ball hit a line. They're not. And the reason we know that is at a certain speed your eyes can't really process it so the ball is coming in faster than your eyes can see it and the moment it hits is actually your hallucination. You don't actually even see the ball hit.

Now I think sometimes you do by coincidence because you're kind of seeing the ball at stages and then your brain is filling in the in-between stuff but the part you're seeing is here then here then here. So if you were lucky at the exact time the ball hit was also a time you were seeing it well maybe you did see it but probably your brain filled in a little movie of where it thinks it landed and you think you saw it with your own eyes but what you saw was your brain inventing a scene for you because it couldn't see it at that speed. Yeah most of what you see is invented by your brain. It's not actually what it looks like but your brain says it's clear.

Now let me give you another example. Let's say I'm a bad programmer and I want to create a simulated world but I don't want to give it a lot of detail because my computers are not strong enough to make everything precise and detailed but I don't want the characters who are in the simulation to know it's not detailed because if they see it pixelated you know then the game is over. They're like hey I'm in a pixelated environment this is obviously a simulation so that's not going to work. So instead I program it like this. Hey little character in the program that I just wrote if you think you're looking at an object right in front of you your brain will see this clearly. That's it. That's the whole program. Your brain will see it clearly even if your eyes don't really have the ability to do that. So your environ