When someone is imagining an event, how can they see the event even though they’re not experiencing it? How can they see what they imagine even if it’s not real?
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Consider this: why is it when photons hit your eyes, you “see” things?
Like, you’re a brain inside a skull. Your eyes are bags of mostly water and carbon, firing off electrical signals down nerve endings at the back. And then, your brain pieces all this stuff together and you say “aha, I can *see* that”, but what the fuck did you really do? You’re still a brain inside a skull.
Reality, everything you’re seeing and experiencing, is an electrochemical process based on nerve responses. It’s a video game running on your wet hardware.
When you remember, you just tell your brain to make similar nerve responses, and it experiences a similar experience to the “real” event.
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