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Just as when we see an optical illusion we 'really see' whatever we see. Eg in the example Quine gave earlier, we really see dots. Yet the dots don't exist anywhere in front of our eyes. Whatever is 'real' is real in our subjective experience only.
With the optical illusion science shows exactly why the brain experiences it as real. So why not for the sense of self also?
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