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I suggest you read the opening chapter of Consciousness Explained. Someone's posted it online here.
Dennett seems to quote no actual scientific paper in the paragraph or otherwise really know what the brain does.
You don't need to provide detailed feedback to the brain, Dennett should be well aware that humans have a blind spot in their eyes and the brain makes up information to fill the blind spot.
It's the same with suggesting a brain in the vat that it's acting in the real world. The brain makes up the information that's missing to provide for an experience of being in the real world.
To produce a strong hallucination (as I understand Dennett he means... (read more)