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Even when brains are unanchored from external data, they continue to generate their own imagery. Remove the world and the show still goes on. You don’t have to be locked up in the Hole to experience the internal model. Many people find great pleasure in sensory deprivation chambers – dark pods in which they float in salty water. By removing the anchor of the external world, they let the internal world fly free. And of course you don’t have to go far to find your own sensory deprivation chamber. Every night when you go to sleep you have full, rich, visual experiences. Your eyes are closed, but
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