Good comment. A related thought that I find interesting:

So everything I'm experiencing right now is in my mind. Generated in my mind in response to outside stimuli, like it makes a simulation of the stimuli. The Eiffel Tower that I know only exists in my mind. I'm not a solipsist, I know that big bit of metal empirically exists outside my mind - in 'uninterpreted' reality. But that Real reality is beyond conception, by definition. We can't think directly about it. As soon as we think about it our brain is just generating a model of it. Therefore everything I know about reality is entirely generated by my mind, in a sense. Based on sensory data sure. But what I think of as reality is actually an imperfect simulation/reflection of it (imperfect because my brain is a computer that is smaller than the universe. The whole universe can't possibly fit. Although interestingly the whole universe that I can ever be aware of does actually fit perfectly). As I look more closely at reality I'm actually looking more closely at my own brain, in a way.

Some smart cookie at Google recently fed in random noise into pattern-recognition neural networks to see what they would recognise. They produced fantastic images like this. So what is 'real' to that neural network? The static it was fed, or the image it 'saw'?

I wonder how many of the patterns and laws we think we see in reality are part of the Real, and how many are part of the shape of our brains?

I try to think about the mind this way when talking to religious people or reading religious works. If 'God' just refers to the part of me that 'sees', the texts start to make a lot more sense, to me at least. For example, this is when my mind began, and 'created' the world out of the stimulus I received:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and desolate, and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep, and God’s active force was moving about over the surface of the waters. 3 And God said: “Let there be light.” Then there was light. 4 After that God saw that the light was good, and God began to divide the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first day.