"We experience the broadcast of perception everyday...could these perceptions be a simulation?”

    From the start of a man's life until his death, he goes through the process of experiences. With these experiences, they all come from physical, mental, and emotional prospects. Examples of these experiences being a family death, getting a fancy car for your birthday, stubbing your toe on a bed frame, or even seeing someone else go through these experiences can create a relative feeling. People believe that everything happens to them is real and actually happening, because of their common experiences. Although the only proof of experiencing anything is by perceiving what is around us. People live life thinking that the world around them is made up of material objects. A person grows up thinking that everything has a material reality. This is because all we perceive is the material set in front of us and the setting we are set to live in. With that being said, perception makes up of our five senses; sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound. These senses cause the experiences that we have perceived everyday since birth and man is dependent on only those five senses from birth. Humans know the external world around them because of these five senses and how they are presented. The external world around us is made up of matter. So how does that make our perceptions real and why do we have the ability to know we are perceiving?

    Let's start with thinking about the most collective and common sense used, sight. How do we see? Modern day science research carried out on our senses, has revealed very different facts on what we call the "external world". Let us be reminded of our information on our sense of sight; which provides us with the most extensive information about the external world. The act of seeing can be explained vividly. At the instance of seeing, light clusters called photons travel from the object to the eye and pass through the eyelids, where they are refracted and focused on the retina at the back of the eye. Here, rays are turned into electrical signals and then transmitted by neurons to the center of vision at the back of the brain. The act of seeing actually takes place in a small center in the back of the brain.  All of the images we view in our lives and all the events we experience are actually experienced in this tiny and dark center in the back of the brain. Both the words you are now reading and the landscape you see when you gaze at the horizon, actually fit into this place of a few cubic centimeters in the brain.

    Let us reconsider this information more carefully. When we say that "we see" we actually see the affect the rays reaching our eyes form in our brain by being converted into electric signals. When we say "we see" we've actually observed the electrical signals in our brain. Another important point that has to be kept in mind, is that the brain is sealed to light and it's interior is absolutely dark. Therefore, it is never possible for the brain to contact light itself. An example: Let us suppose that in front us there is a burning candle and we view its light. During this period, when we view the candles light, the inside of our skull and brain is completely dark. The light of the candle never illuminates our brain and our center of vision. However, we watch a very colorful and bright world inside our dark brain. The same situation applies to all our other senses. Sound, touch, taste, and smell are all perceived in the brain as electrical signals. Therefore, throughout our lives our brains do not confront the original of the matter existing outside us, but rather an electrical copy of it formed inside our brain. It is at this point that we are misled by assuming these copies are instances of real matter outside us. 

    This brings us to a conclusion that the external world is inside our brain. Everything we see, touch, hear, and perceive is matter. The world or the universe is only electrical signals in our brain. For instance, we see a bird in the external world. In reality this bird is not in the external world but in our brain. The light particles reflecting from the bird, reach our eye and here they are converted into electrical signals. These signals are transmitted by neurons to the center of vision in the brain, as we know. The bird we see is in fact, the electric signals in our brain. If the sight nerves traveling to the brain were disconnected, the image of the bird would suddenly disappear. In the same manner, the bird's sounds we hear are also in our brain. If the nerve traveling from the ear to the brain was disconnected, there would be no sound left. Simply, the birds shape and sound is nothing but the brain's interpretation of electrical signals. 

    Another consideration is the sense of distance. For example, the distance between you and the device you are reading this on, is nothing but a feeling of space formed in the brain.  Also, objects that seem to be very distant in one person's view are actually images clustered at one spot in the brain. Another example being; a man assumes that the stars he looks at are millions of light-years away from him. Yet the stars are right inside himself at the center of vision inside his brain. While you read this, you are not inside the room you assume yourself to be in. On a contrary, the room is inside of you. Your seeing your body makes you think you are inside of it. However, you must remember that your body too is an image formed inside your brain. 

    So far you have read repeatedly about an external world and a world of perceptions formed in our brain. The ladder of which is what we see. However, since we can never actually reach the external world; how can we be sure that such a world really exists? Definitely we can not. The only reality we cope with is the world of perceptions we live within our mind. We believe in the existence of objects just because we see them, touch them, and they are reflected to us by our perceptions. However, our perceptions are only ideas in our mind. Objects we perceive are nothing but ideas, and these ideas essentially are nowhere but our mind. We are beguiled by deceptions when we talk about the universe and things to have an existence outside the mind. The perceptions we observe may be coming from an artificial source. 

    Let's experiment. Suppose that we can take our brain out of our body and keep it alive in a glass jar. Let us put a computer in which all kinds of information can be recorded. Finally, let us transmit the electrical signals of all the data related to a setting, such as image, sound, and smell, to this computer. Let us connect this computer to the sensory signals in our brain with electroes and send the pre-recorded data to our brain. As our brain perceives these signals, it will see and live the setting correlated with these. From this computer we can send to our brain also signals pertaining to our own image. For instance, we can send to our brain the electrical correlates of such senses as sight, hearing, and touch, that we perceived while we sit at a desk. In that state, our brain will think it's a business man sitting in his office. This imaginary world will continue as long as the stimulatnts keep coming from the computer. We would never realize that we only consist of a brain. It is indeed very easy for us to be deceived into believing perceptions without any material correlates to be real. This is what also happens in our dreams...

    For you, reality is all that can be touched and seen with the eye, and your dreams can also touch with your hand and see with your eye. In reality, you have neither hand nor eye and nothing can really be touched or seen. Taking what you perceive in your dreams to be material realities; you are simply being deceived. For example, a person deeply asleep in his bed may see himself in an entirely different world in his dream. He may dream that he is a captain of a giant war boat and even spend a great effort to command the boat. In fact, this person has not taken even one step away from his bed. In his dreams he may visit different settings, meet with friends, and have a chat with them. It is only when the person awakes from the dream that he realizes that all were only perceptions. If we are able to live easily in an unreal world in our dreams, then the same thing can be equally true for the world we live in. When we wake up from a dream, there is no logical reason for not thinking we entered a longer dream called "real life".

    The reason we consider our dream to be fantasy and the world as real, is nothing but a product of our habits and prejudices. This suggests that we may well be awoken from the life on Earth, which we think we are living right now, just as we are awoken from a dream.