Youยดre not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
David EaglemanInstead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.
David EaglemanIt is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
David Eagleman