Neuronal World: Illusionistic Explanation of the Empirical Reality Vladislav Kondrat

1. Neuronal World Model (NWM) and Perception of Reality:
The central thesis of the article is that the brain constantly generates a virtual reality through electromagnetic synchronization, which we mistakenly perceive as the "real world." There is no direct contact between the brain and an objective external reality. Instead, reality is a product of rhythmic neuronal processes, including the self-model, time, space, and causality—all of which are illusions generated by the brain to reduce uncertainty.

2. Abstract-Empirical Dichotomy:
The NWM proposes that all perception is constructed through a dynamic interaction between empirical (sensory input) and abstract (memory, imagination, reasoning) components. Memory is not a static storage but a reconstructive, imaginative process. The gamma rhythm supports empirical, sensory integration, while alpha and beta rhythms underlie abstract modeling. These rhythms interact bidirectionally, forming a Bayesian predictive mechanism that defines experience as a continuous illusion.

3. Brain Rhythms as the Foundation of Reality:
Brain oscillations are not random but form the structural basis of the neuronal world. Gamma rhythms contribute to sensory awareness, whereas alpha and beta rhythms create inhibitory frameworks necessary for abstraction. When these rhythms are synchronized properly, they produce the coherent illusion of self and world. Their desynchronization explains altered states of consciousness, time-space distortions, and even psychiatric conditions such as depression.

4. Self-Model, Depression, and Therapy:
The sense of "self" is an illusion created by the synchronization of specific brain modules. Depression arises not from neurotransmitter imbalance, but from the hypersynchronization of self-referential models and naïve moral-emotional interpretations of the world. Therefore, antidepressants are seen as ineffective or even harmful. Effective treatment lies in disrupting the illusion of self through meditation, psychedelics (like 5-MeO-DMT), or cognitive therapies that modulate rhythmic brain activity and dissolve ego-centric thought loops.

5. Morality, Duality, and the Hedonic Illusion:
Moral judgments, values, and concepts of good and evil are the result of automatic computations of the hedonic scale, which assigns value to stimuli based on survival-oriented algorithms. These are biologically functional but epistemically false illusions. The article argues that ethical beliefs are fundamentally illusory and prevent recognition of the truth: all experience is simulation. Only by understanding the virtual nature of reality and the nonexistence of a substantial self can one overcome cognitive and emotional suffering.