Editing Reality (section)

===Personal and collective reality===
[[File:White Matter Connections Obtained with MRI Tractography.png|thumb|[[Nerve tract|White matter tracts]] within a human brain, as visualized by [[MRI]] [[tractography]]]]
Each individual has a different [[Point of view (philosophy)|view of reality]], with different memories and personal history, knowledge, personality traits and experience.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Savin-Baden |first1=Maggi |last2=Burden |first2=David |title=Digital Immortality and Virtual Humans |journal=Postdigital Science and Education |date=1 April 2019 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=87–103 |doi=10.1007/s42438-018-0007-6 |s2cid=149797460 |language=en |issn=2524-4868|doi-access=free }}</ref> This system, mostly referring to the [[human brain]], affects [[cognition]] and behavior and into this complex new [[knowledge integration|knowledge]], memories,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Kesteren |first1=Marlieke T. R. |last2=Rignanese |first2=Paul |last3=Gianferrara |first3=Pierre G. |last4=Krabbendam |first4=Lydia |last5=Meeter |first5=Martijn |title=Congruency and reactivation aid memory integration through reinstatement of prior knowledge |journal=Scientific Reports |date=16 March 2020 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=4776 |doi=10.1038/s41598-020-61737-1 |pmid=32179822 |pmc=7075880 |bibcode=2020NatSR..10.4776V |language=en |issn=2045-2322}}</ref> information, [[thought]]s and experiences are continuously integrated.<ref>{{cite news |title=Understanding reality through algorithms |url=https://news.mit.edu/2022/understanding-reality-through-algorithms-fernanda-de-la-torre-0925 |access-date=6 November 2022 |work=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106174033/https://news.mit.edu/2022/understanding-reality-through-algorithms-fernanda-de-la-torre-0925 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{additional citation needed|date=November 2022}} The [[connectome]] – [[Neuron#Connectivity|neural networks/wirings]] in brains – is thought to be a key factor in [[human variability]] in terms of cognition or the way we perceive the world (as a context) and related features or processes.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Popova |first1=Maria |title=The Connectome: A New Way To Think About What Makes You You |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-connectome-a-new-way-to-think-about-what-makes-you-you/255023/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=6 November 2022 |date=28 March 2012 |archive-date=31 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331173723/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/the-connectome-a-new-way-to-think-about-what-makes-you-you/255023/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Seung |first1=Sebastian |title=Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are |year=2012 |publisher=HMH |isbn=978-0547508177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXwEuoYl3wQC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Quest for the connectome: scientists investigate ways of mapping the brain |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/07/quest-connectome-mapping-brain |access-date=6 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=7 May 2012 |language=en |archive-date=6 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106174032/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/07/quest-connectome-mapping-brain |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Sensemaking]] is the process by which people give [[Semantics|meaning]] to their experiences and make sense of the world they live in. [[Personal identity]] is relating to questions like how a unique individual is persisting through time.

Sensemaking and determination of reality also occurs collectively, which is investigated in [[social epistemology]] and related approaches. From the [[collective intelligence]] perspective, the intelligence of the individual human (and potentially AI entities) is substantially limited and advanced intelligence emerges when multiple entities collaborate over time.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Peeters |first1=Marieke M. M. |last2=van Diggelen |first2=Jurriaan |last3=van den Bosch |first3=Karel |last4=Bronkhorst |first4=Adelbert |last5=Neerincx |first5=Mark A. |last6=Schraagen |first6=Jan Maarten |last7=Raaijmakers |first7=Stephan |title=Hybrid collective intelligence in a human–AI society |journal=AI & Society |date=1 March 2021 |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=217–238 |doi=10.1007/s00146-020-01005-y |s2cid=220050285 |language=en |issn=1435-5655 |url=https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/205948801/Peeters_2020_Hybrid_collective_intelligence_in_a.pdf |archive-date=3 September 2023 |access-date=3 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230903132808/https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/205948801/Peeters_2020_Hybrid_collective_intelligence_in_a.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{additional citation needed|date=November 2022}} [[Collective memory]] is an important component of the social construction of reality<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Luckmann |first1=Thomas |title=On Social Interaction and the Communicative Construction of Personal Identity, Knowledge and Reality |journal=Organization Studies |date=February 2008 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=277–290 |doi=10.1177/0170840607087260 |s2cid=145106025 |language=en |issn=0170-8406}}</ref> and communication and communication-related systems, such as media systems, may also be major components {{see below|[[#Technology]]}}.

Philosophy of perception raises questions based on the evolutionary history of humans' perceptual apparatuses, particularly or especially individuals' [[human senses|physiological senses]], described as "[w]e don't see reality—we only see what was useful to see in the past", partly suggesting that "[o]ur species has been so successful not in spite of our inability to see reality but because of it".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Draaisma |first1=Douwe |title=Perception: Our useful inability to see reality |journal=Nature |date=April 2017 |volume=544 |issue=7650 |pages=296 |language=en |doi=10.1038/544296a|bibcode=2017Natur.544..296D |s2cid=4400770 |doi-access=free }}</ref>