In this post, we discuss how perceived reality can be characterized as a cognitive bias. In a previous post, we proposed an experiment in order to understand the phenomenal world instead of experiencing it. We basically control, not deprive, all the five senses and then train the mind to go into a state, S, where it has no thoughts, and therefore has no sense of time.
In another post we discussed that in order to analyze something, we need to have an abstract representation of it in our mind. We claim that S is the state where the mind has an abstract representation of perceived reality, because it's in a state from which perceived reality originates.
If S is the actual reality that we experience, then perceived reality becomes a cognitive bias because of sensory perception, as the senses cause the mind to have emotional attachment to the different parts of perceived reality. In particular, because of the repeated input of the senses it becomes an example of the illusory truth effect:
The illusory truth effect (also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure.