It is nearly impossible to be objective about your own brain.
People can't trust their own perceptions? Isn't that what gaslighting is about? Why do we accept eye-witness testimony in court cases if people should not trust their own perceptions?
If a person saw another person strike another person, should we trust their testimony? No! We should have a double-blind placebo controlled experiment where we go back in time and have a large sample size of identical people watching the same person getting struck and not struck in alternate universes and ask them if the person was struck to determine if their perceptions can be trusted.
Eye-witness testimony is mostly bunk and is often not trusted in court. It's been shown over and over that eye-witnesses can be manipulated (even without their knowledge) and are not reliable.
No, you can't trust your own perceptions. You can only really trust that you are having a perception at this moment in time.
At some point I had to take medication where one of the known side effects where higher blood pressure.
I also noticed a significantly increased blood pressure every time I took this medicine.
This continued until one day someone knocked the door just before I took my pills, and I still got the same symptoms while the pills where safely on the kitchen.
I then realised my brain had played games with me and since then the side effects disappeared.
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People can't trust their own perceptions? Isn't that what gaslighting is about? Why do we accept eye-witness testimony in court cases if people should not trust their own perceptions?
If a person saw another person strike another person, should we trust their testimony? No! We should have a double-blind placebo controlled experiment where we go back in time and have a large sample size of identical people watching the same person getting struck and not struck in alternate universes and ask them if the person was struck to determine if their perceptions can be trusted.
Eye-witness testimony is mostly bunk and is often not trusted in court. It's been shown over and over that eye-witnesses can be manipulated (even without their knowledge) and are not reliable.
No, you can't trust your own perceptions. You can only really trust that you are having a perception at this moment in time.
At some point I had to take medication where one of the known side effects where higher blood pressure.
I also noticed a significantly increased blood pressure every time I took this medicine.
This continued until one day someone knocked the door just before I took my pills, and I still got the same symptoms while the pills where safely on the kitchen.
I then realised my brain had played games with me and since then the side effects disappeared.
...and I consider myself somewhat rational.