I am a magician. Perhaps you may find some of my thoughts interesting. I am capable of creating reality in the human mind. I have detailed this information in a book titled, The Theory and Practice of Magic Deception.
My conclusion is the mind gathers data from many sources. This data is fed to an internal projection room. The 'I' is then an observer in this room and consciously observes the 3D videos projected. The subconscious (I don't have a better word for this) constructs these videos.
Sources include visual, audio, touch, and the human memory bank.
Here there is not enough space for a complete description. So here are a couple thoughts. As a magician my role is to perform magic. To this end I have found physical gestures that trigger the subconscious to pull video clips from the memory bank and place them in the projection room. The 'I' then does not see what I am actually doing but views a different action. This appears as absolute reality.
Another! Close our eyes and be certain no light is creeping in. Hold your hand in front of your face and move it. While not lit up normally, there is an image of your hand on the wall of this projection room.
I have spent a lifetime studying this and most magicians are not aware of this. Who am I? I have a degree in physics and have programmed a wide variety of machines during my life.
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