This metaphor can also shed some light on the way how we perceive "mental disorders".
The current approach: Your illness causes you to make up a reality which does not exist. Those voices that you hear and images that you see are not real, they are only illusions in your head.
A new approach: Your interface chooses to display and interpret reality in a non-standard way. And it's non-standard only here, on this planet, and only among a species called homo sapiens. It might be the case that your interface renders reality more accurately than the rest of your species .
This metaphor can also shed some light on the way how we perceive "mental disorders".
The current approach: Your illness causes you to make up a reality which does not exist. Those voices that you hear and images that you see are not real, they are only illusions in your head.
A new approach: Your interface chooses to display and interpret reality in a non-standard way. And it's non-standard only here, on this planet, and only among a species called homo sapiens. It might be the case that your interface renders reality more accurately than the rest of your species .