There is a difference between what your brain knows and what YOU, your consciousness knows. The blind mans consciousness-self may have problems understanding how he visually looks. His brain though knows all the little secrets of his physical body.... and as i said earlier, if the brains knows, so does the Matrix.
To think the brain needs a visual confirmation on your look, sounds nonsensical to me, as the brain is in total and complete control and knows parts of your physique even your most intimate partner will ever know, and certainly even your consciousness-self does not know....
In your theory a fake mirror could then convince a brain into thinking it actually has three legs, and four eyes or perhaps just a nice tan?
It would not. You brain knows precisely how many legs you have, it knows how your veins flow in your body, it knows all the details of your skin and skintone, it knows where your moles are on your back, it knows how your heart beat, it simply knows all about your physique … to cheat the brain of this info, you would have to numb it or paralyze it in other ways…. Giving a fake or no mirror, would make no change in its knowledge of itself. You, yourself may be confused, but not your brain.
Phantom limps is an example hereof in the real world. Mirrors surely shows you that your arm has been cut off, and yet the brain may still experience feelings in this phantom limp as its nerves are sending it confusing signals after the arm was severed… in other words, the mirror confirmation and what you yourself may know, means diddly-squat to the brain. The brain gets its info from tis nerves, that connects to every little piece of your body...
Wouldn’t the real world phenomena of phantom limps prove your theory wrong ?
Of course, there are attributes that the brain does not control. Like the length of your hair, or the length of your nails or if you have something stuck in your teeth … and this we actually see in the movie are different from their real selves outside the Matrix.
I feel our disagreeance is based upon differentiating what a brain fully consist off. The consciousness-self (aka You) would need a stimuli of sorts to know how it looks, like a mirror or other real world interactions. On this I agree. The brain is so much more though, and the brain in general (the machinist of the body, if you will), depends on its info from billions or trillions of nerves and nerve endings and not external stimuli.
And so the way I see it is that the Matrix gets its info from the brain and then uses this info to manipulate your consciousness-self, as you walk about in the Matrix. In other words, The Matrix knows your looks because it has access to all this data in you brain
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