Like you, I think Bessis had it almost right, but for different reasons. It's not real mathematics but the real world that we dream. Competent people are anointed prophets with special access to the dream world (i.e. reality). Executive control, as Freud recognized, is a censor deciding which aspects of reality we see. And the answer to deep mathematical and philosophical questions is often in those aspects that the censor removes from our vision.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate “the answer to deep mathematical and philosophical questions is often in those aspects that the censor removes from our vision.” That’s absolutely true. When you say that we dream the real world, do you mean that since what we experience as external reality is actually internally generated, by essentially the same mechanisms that generate dreams, that there’s no real dream/reality distinction? If so, we actually completely agree.
That's basically my view, only I'd say that dreams are generated by internal synthetic processes whereas our experience of reality is generated by internal analytic processes applied to that synthetic output. So basically I think that what we call reality is the product of two competing minds, one synthetic and the other analytic. A useful analogy would be a Michelangelo sculpture. He begins with a giant block of marble (this is synthetic reality/intuition/id) and then he painstakingly takes away everything he doesn't want you to see (this is analysis/executive control/reason/ego). So the beautiful sculpture that you experience is produced via a kind of censorship -- by the executive function/ego/analysis/reason taking away one chunk of marble after another. Incidentally, this is also how AI generates images.
Like you, I think Bessis had it almost right, but for different reasons. It's not real mathematics but the real world that we dream. Competent people are anointed prophets with special access to the dream world (i.e. reality). Executive control, as Freud recognized, is a censor deciding which aspects of reality we see. And the answer to deep mathematical and philosophical questions is often in those aspects that the censor removes from our vision.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate “the answer to deep mathematical and philosophical questions is often in those aspects that the censor removes from our vision.” That’s absolutely true. When you say that we dream the real world, do you mean that since what we experience as external reality is actually internally generated, by essentially the same mechanisms that generate dreams, that there’s no real dream/reality distinction? If so, we actually completely agree.
You might find this interesting: https://zworld.substack.com/p/what-are-you
That's basically my view, only I'd say that dreams are generated by internal synthetic processes whereas our experience of reality is generated by internal analytic processes applied to that synthetic output. So basically I think that what we call reality is the product of two competing minds, one synthetic and the other analytic. A useful analogy would be a Michelangelo sculpture. He begins with a giant block of marble (this is synthetic reality/intuition/id) and then he painstakingly takes away everything he doesn't want you to see (this is analysis/executive control/reason/ego). So the beautiful sculpture that you experience is produced via a kind of censorship -- by the executive function/ego/analysis/reason taking away one chunk of marble after another. Incidentally, this is also how AI generates images.