The Brain Antibrain Theory

This theory is crazy. So be prepared. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about reality, perception and models of the world. One thought lead to the other and suddendly I found myself thinking about this really obscure idea:

Could I possibly be a brain, wired to another brain, the “antibrain”?

Like two computers. Linked together. Think of it as two computers sending information to each other. The antibrain and me, both of us are computers. I play the role of the user and send data to the antibrain, which runs a world simulation. The user interface could be something like synapses of my brain. It doesn’t even need to be something like synapses, as the antibrain creates everything I consider to be real and I can’t perceive anything else. I could be a mere sophisticated computer as well, still thinking that I’m a human being. God is the allmighty programmer who hopefully pays the bills for my power supply.

Pretty sick, right? But why should you believe in such a silly stuff? The strange thing is that the only way our brains interact with the outside world is by synapses. They receive patterns and interpret them. They send some patterns and then they receive some again. That’s how things really work. Our brains process data in different areas so it might happen that some signals are perceived as a smell for example. But basically it’s all the same kind of neuronal activity. Our brains create the model of a certain smell. We create our own reality.

So how can we know that the outside world is more than a mere simulation created by an antibrain and sent to our synapses (or the like)? I don’t think we can know it at all. We can only process information we receive. But there could be a whole universe sitting next to us and we wouldn’t notice it if we had no senses to perceive it.

This should provoke some thoughts! Think about reality for example. Is a simulation real enough to be named reality? Is there some higher level of reality? Think about the world. Try to go new ways. Speculate. I don’t want to tell you that the brain antibrain theory is the only possible truth, it might even be disprovable, but I want you to think.