A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell, On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism (1914).
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Well, recognition of the perception as a perception is not an error, but the presentation of a hallucination to the conscious mind is an error of the system responsible for perception.
As a result of sleep-deprivation, I used occasionally to hallucinate. As an adult, I always recognized the hallucination as a hallucination.
1 reply on “Bertrand Russell”
Well, recognition of the perception as a perception is not an error, but the presentation of a hallucination to the conscious mind is an error of the system responsible for perception.
As a result of sleep-deprivation, I used occasionally to hallucinate. As an adult, I always recognized the hallucination as a hallucination.