The folder on your desktop does not exist. Open the machine and you will find no folder, only voltage. It is a picture drawn for you, so you can use the thing without pushing electrons around by hand. Your eyes run the same trick, and never mention it. Take magenta. There is no magenta wavelength — none, anywhere in the spectrum. Your brain invents it to close the gap between red and violet, then shows it to you as if it were out there. A useful label. Not a discovery about the universe. Your brain was never built to show you the truth. It was built to keep your ancestors alive. Where truth and survival came apart, survival won. What you call seeing the world is a simulation, running behind your eyes. And it is not built from the parts you assume. Take a melody: shift every single note and the tune survives. Keep every note and shuffle them, and it is gone. The tune was never in the notes. It was in the relations. Most of your experience is built like that. So the honest version: you have never touched reality. You have only ever used an interface. Most people hear that and feel robbed. That is the wrong reaction, and the reason why is the best news in this thread. You cannot renegotiate reality. An interface you can repair: notice which alarms your head prints and which it doesn't, count things instead of recalling them, swap the words you think in. You are not stuck with the world you see. Follow along.