Wednesday, April 27, 2011
What is real?
Is real what we perceive, is it what we understand, is it what is actually? The last is the most common definition. But how can we know what is real? Is it what one if us sees? What about what the rest of us see? We know color isn't real, we know we can't really touch anything, so what is real? And more importantly does it even matter? If we live happily with the world as we see it why try to find a different one
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I think reality is a choice thing. People choose what is real and fake, because something that they choose to be real to them is what they percieve as "real". Reality is different for everybody, and since nobody's views are the same, we must conclude that:
ReplyDeleteEVERYTHING AND NOTHING are the only things real.
I perceive this question as being another Why? type question. We really can't prove that anything is real or not real, so why spend your time worrying about whether color is real or whether you can really ever touch something, when they're all questions that would require an infinite amount of prove to satisfy?
ReplyDeleteThere is no real proof of anything. I mean if you think about it, you are a brain. You are just inside this "machine" that gives you a vision and lets you hear. But can we rely on those things? How can we tell that what we hear and see are the same as someone else's vision and hearing?
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