Nimos
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I think you are right in perceiving humans a biologic machines. Yet as I also mentioned to someone else, the hardware as you call it, need time to process the data and even for the data to arrive to us. Like humans on Earth can look at a star and some aliens closer to it, wont be able to see it, as it might have exploded or whatever already, so we receive different data which we then turn into different realities.My understanding is that our perception of reality is an interface created for us by the unconscious mind. Like consider the data that is use to create the information on your computer screen. A bunch of binary bits that wouldn't make sense to most people, however the hardware takes the information and creates an image on the screen that we can make sense of.
We all have slightly different hardware so the image we consciously see can be slightly different from individual to individual. In some cases the hardware could be radically different or even damage so the image we individually see can be radically different.
So the reality you perceive is base on actual data input through your senses however how the image ends up being displayed on the interface that is perceive by the conscious mind can be different from individual to individual. The "better" the hardware the more accurate the image.
So reality is the data we share how we end up individually perceiving that data maybe different.
The unconscious mind is not only hardware however, it also has it's own programming. While we can't do much about the hardware, we can to some degree alter it's programming. It is what religion tries to do, it's what the concept of critical thinking tries to do. It's what brainwashing attempts to do. Alter the programs the unconscious mind runs on to alter the resultant image perceive by the conscious mind. It is, IMO, what the idea of "right thought" in Buddhism tries to do. Alter the image of reality created by the unconscious mind that we consciously perceive.
But as in my original example, even for humans if the speed at which we travel are huge enough our realities changes even though we started out more or less from the same reality. Time is so weird
Just remembered another thing, unrelated to this, but just something that Einstein wondered about, not really sure if he figured it out. But imagine you travel with the speed of light and then hold a mirror up in front of you, can you then see a reflection of yourself?