system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is human perception the same as reality?

Is what I see, feel, hear, etc. reality? Is there any way that we can prove that we can perceive the reality of the universe? I suppose this is a more philosophical question, but I'm damn curious.
gpt
No not at all. Sounds are your brains interpretations of vibrations of pressure in a medium (air). Light is your brain's interpretations of certain wavelengths of radiation striking receptor cells clustered in your eyeballs. There are things you don't see, don't hear, and what you do see and hear is your brain's description of it, not the actual literal thing. You are not 'directly connected' to any sense which discerns 'reality', all of your senses are interpreted through your brain.  

This also leads to the interesting thought problem of the brain in the vat. In short, there isn't a way to prove you aren't a brain in a vat and something is simply manipulating the parts of you that discern sensations.