cardboard adolescent

you could put someone in a sensory deprivation tank and they'd probably start hallucinating and you can call it a hallucination because it doesn't respond to an 'external stimulus,' but how do you know those external stimuli weren't hallucinations in the first place? there's really no difference. the stimulus comes from within rather than without, the only difference between kinds of experience are the way they integrate with other experiences. integrating experiences is nothing other than 'interpreting' them, and we can call a false interpretation an illusion, but in that case 'illusion' just refers to a difficulty integrating, whereas in this case it is rather an ease of integrating an experience of random sounds into the perception of a word. if the ability to transmute chaos into static concepts is useful and helpful (i hint that it is essential) then it is not an 'illusion,' but rather reality. as such i prefer to use the word 'hallucinations,' because it implies that while organizing chaos into order is not illusion, but the essence of reality, we can still call reality a hallucination and preserve the idea that the stimulus, while not absent, is not what it represents itself as.