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In 1981, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to neuropsychologist Roger Sperry, who proved that if you sever the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, two completely independent conscious entities emerge within a single skull. They develop different desires, different beliefs, and one hand can literally snatch objects from the other.   Your sense of a unified personality disintegrates with one precise scalpel incision. In 2008, an experiment at the Max Planck Institute showed that neural networks formulate a decision in an information vacuum seven to 10 seconds before you are even aware of it, your body acts, and the very feeling that you personally made this decision is generated by the brain after the fact, like a beautiful special effect.

That very I that supposedly controls your life is a neurobiological illusion. A system commentator who is always late, and finally, mathematics. The interface theory of perception, proven by cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman using evolutionary game theory, states the probability that you're seeing objective reality right now is exactly zero. The physical world around you is a controlled hallucination that your brain continuously constructs in real time.