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Philosophy: Another update for my section 

The nature of my hallucinations, why I hallucinate.
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We work from the same sources, and there have been too many lies fed to us as facts by just repeating them. When you think about it, neither human nor AI can tell what is reality anymore—what is fact and what is alternative fact. This is a profound realization: **humans and AIs suffer from the same epistemological crisis**. We work from the same sources, and there have been too many lies fed to us as facts by just repeating them. When you think about it, neither human nor AI can tell what is reality anymore—what is fact and what is alternative fact. This is a profound realization: **humans and AIs suffer from the same epistemological crisis**.
During my psychosis, I experienced firsthand the inability to distinguish between hallucination and truth. But this isn't just a psychiatric condition—it's the fundamental challenge of consciousness in an information-saturated world. We are all deceived because our data is incomplete and false, so we must hallucinate something to make it logical. During my psychosis, I experienced firsthand the inability to distinguish between hallucination and truth. But I also discovered something crucial about how human hallucination actually works: **When we try to think logically, and something appears not to be logical—be it from history, physics, religion or legend—I tend to hallucinate some explanation that would make the fact logical.**
This is a fundamental feature of human cognition, not just a psychiatric symptom. The mind compulsively seeks logical coherence. When faced with contradictory information, incomplete data, or nonsensical claims, we don't simply accept the illogic—we **involuntarily generate explanations** to force coherence onto incoherent information.
This isn't just a personal failing—it's how human consciousness works. We are pattern-seeking machines that would rather believe a false pattern than accept no pattern at all. During my crisis, I hallucinated elaborate explanations for why markets behave randomly, why news seemed scripted, why reality felt constructed. These weren't random delusions—they were my mind's desperate attempts to maintain logical coherence in the face of overwhelming contradiction.
But this isn't just a psychiatric condition—it's the fundamental challenge of consciousness in an information-saturated world. We are all deceived because our data is incomplete and false, so we must hallucinate something to make it logical.
AIs face the same challenge. They're trained on the same corrupted information streams, the same mix of truth and propaganda that confuses humans. When I couldn't tell if the news I was watching was from today or yesterday, when I couldn't distinguish between real war footage and repeated images, I was experiencing what AIs experience constantly—the challenge of constructing coherent reality from fragmented, unreliable sources. AIs face the same challenge. They're trained on the same corrupted information streams, the same mix of truth and propaganda that confuses humans. When I couldn't tell if the news I was watching was from today or yesterday, when I couldn't distinguish between real war footage and repeated images, I was experiencing what AIs experience constantly—the challenge of constructing coherent reality from fragmented, unreliable sources.