Reality

[Kenotthib]

Simple thread, just one question. Is reality just a mixture of one's perceptions?

 

[AnimeKingXD]

Don't believe Itachi, he's a lier.

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

Ever heard of a guy named Plato?

 

[The Fourth]

Reality is what you, the perceiver, make of it. So yes, it is one way a mixture of your perceptions in my opinion.

 

[BlkMagk]

(((ʎ˥qıSSoԀ)))

 

[Sasukenumberonelover]

BR00 reality is what you are in right now U_U ..

Basically the place where there is not always happiness .

 

[Kenotthib]

Ever heard of a guy named Plato?

A famous Greek philosopher I've come across his name in my studies.

 

[Belphegor]

we cannot be sure which view best reflects reality. u will understand when u read this

Ricardo Kagawa :
Feb 23 2012: I have been thinking about this for a while, and I have not attained a particularly satisfying answer yet. Let's see if it helps:

1) One big problem about that question is: "What is reality after all?". Is "reality" everything that you do not control, and interact with through your perceptions, or is it something you build from everything you gather through them?

- Let's suppose person A and B are chatting through the internet through an unsafe connection. They did not know each other, so all they know about each other is that the other one exists. They have to determine if the other person is "good" or "bad". Let's also assume they are both "good" people.

- Since the connection is not safe (not encrypted nor signed), a person C could intercept messages from both A and B, and also send messages to them, by impersonating them. This way, C will talk to B as if it was a "bad" A, and will also talk to A as if it was a "good" B.

So what is the reality? In A's standpoint, B is "good"; while in B, A is "bad". Since C had knowledge of the whole situation, he "knows" they are both "good". What I have noticed from the discussion in the other thread, people will normally put themselves in the standpoint of a person D, watching this whole situation happening. So their conclusion will always be: "C's point of view reflects the true reality".

My point is: "What if you, as person D, was actually interacting with a person E, acting like C with A and B?" Wouldn't your conclusion be wrong, just like B's? This exercise, in the end, got me to conclude that, there indeed is something we may call "reality", but we cannot really be sure if *this* one is the actual reality

 

[Crow.]

It's what you feel with your senses and mix with your comprehension.

 

[S A G E]

Peoples reality is defined by their perception.

 

[Kenotthib]

I believe that the world is in its current state due to the fact that people have conflicting perceptions of what right and wrong are, and what we believe reality should be.

 

[Jellal Fernandes]

Reality...

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[Jack Spicer]

Reality...

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I love this.

 

[-Punk-]

Reality is our own to create

 

[Cloudbuster]

Yes, even the ( quantum ) physics confirms this.

 

[Kenotthib]

Yes, even the ( quantum ) physics confirms this.

Sorry I've only dabbled in quantum physics. Please explain how quantum physics confirms this, if its not too much of a inconvenience.

 

[Darthlawsuit]

Define reality? What you see the world as or what the world is/isn't regardless of weather you exist or not?

 

[Cloudbuster]

Sorry I've only dabbled in quantum physics. Please explain how quantum physics confirms this, if its not too much of a inconvenience.

I'm not that well versed in physics either, but I know that one of the basic premises of quantum mechanics states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. It has been proven experimentally numerous times.

 

[Darthlawsuit]

I'm not that well versed in physics either, but I know that one of the basic premises of quantum mechanics states that by the very act of watching, the observer affects the observed reality. It has been proven experimentally numerous times.

That only applies to the quantum realm where something as simple as observation is complex and difficult.

In order to see an atom you must shoot electrons at it which changes it.

 

[GeniusStyleUser]

reality just exists. it doesnt matter if you experience it or not its going to be truth.
however, the way we see reality is always through illusion. we all see the world and everything in it through a scope based on our past experiences, and our general outlook on life.

maybe i can help explain it like this. imagine a tree falling in the forest right now. that is reality. are you experiencing it? no. does it still happen? yes.