Comment by DaiHafVaho

Fresh account for obvious reasons.

I wonder whether I "suffer" from this. It's not really suffering. I am very comfortable being a meatbag who hallucinates that they are thinking thoughts; I know that none of it is really real in the way that physical artifacts are real.

Now I have a new and better explanation for why I have visual hallucinations sometimes, particularly halos and fuzz.

For anybody else: Don't worry. You aren't controlled by any one thing. You're a colony of trillions of cells, all working together to produce a mutually-beneficial outcome.

Edit: Do I have free will? I don't think that the question makes sense. I have free will in the same way that my subatomic particles have free will [0]. I have the ability to choose and to choose not to choose, but none of that entails free will [1]. I can even say that I have free will, but that does not mean that I have free will [2]. I think that, even if free will is a thing, maybe I am not a thing which can have free will because maybe I am not a thing at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie