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You're Reacting to Things That Don't Exist #psychology #reality

28 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Your brain can't tell the difference between what's happening to you and what you're seeing on a screen, so you're having real emotional reactions to things that don't exist. The speaker contrasts this with an older way of living, where you could have your own private reality, like Zorba on his Greek island.

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100%. I don't have an evidence number, but a vast majority of our emotional triggers are triggered by virtual realities. So in the middle of the night, when you see a picture of something in another part of the world, all your emotions get triggered, but it's not your reality actually. But it is. So compared to this 50 years ago, just watch the famous movie Zorba, on a Greek island. We are all our own Zorba in our own Greek island. Now there's a big challenge. How can I create my island? It's almost impossible. My brain is not wired to distinguish what is real, what is not real. Everything's real for me. From 20 centimeters from my eye, data comes and then creates all these things that's obsolete. So that's why I think it's a very different world we live in compared to my childhood.