Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 102 of 171

Hallucinations are real perceptions

The assumption in popular culture and even in much of psychology and neuroscience is that hallucinations are erroneous perceptions in the absence of identifiable external stimuli. When people hallucinate they hear or see things that aren’t “really” there. But hallucinations are real perceptions.

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