What exactly is reality??

[mithun]

The age old cliched question, I know. I cannot, however, stop myself from asking it. There are a great many who would argue reality is this. This keyboard, these letters, me, you, the screen. There are others that claim all these things are figments. That all these things are electronic signals in my brain telling me what I see, what I hear, what I smell.

I tend to beleive that they are both right. Reality is all in how you perseive the world around you. What is real to me and what is real to a schizophrenic are very different, and both very real. Your dreams, hallucinogenic expireneces, your morning cup of coffee, what makes one anymore real than the other?

We've all had dreams we thought were so real, we've all had dreams we woke up and were still dreaming, we were all so very convinced by the light and warmth of the fires, coolness of the waters, the taste of the food, so assured in what we knew in those places. Why, just beacuse we woke up one more time in the "real world" would we beleive the dream ended?



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[yadayada]

Originally Posted by mithun

Reality is all in how you perseive the world around you. What is real to me and what is real to a schizophrenic are very different, and both very real. Your dreams, hallucinogenic expireneces, your morning cup of coffee, what makes one anymore real than the other?

Then some things are more real than others, with reality being characterized by degrees of persistence. Right? Wouldn't that be degrees of reality?

Existence is a totally different, scientific, rather than a personal concept.

[monoenny11]

May be its look odd to all of you & something ridiculous to those materialists whose theories about universe had already get collapsed in early phase of last century. Absolute reality is always remain mysterious & attractive for philosopher & meta-physician in the history of mankind.
I am sure that it can detect by just physical or metaphysical experience. Because both has serious limitations & loopholes.We just be able to quality & characteristics of matter & some non-material objects through these traditional & typical (or more exactly) existing ways & means of acquiring knowledge.
To get access to absolute truth we should discover some new & sophisticated branch of knowledge, which I on my part don't think so as metaphysics.

[Shevchenko]

"What is reality?" - All is rather simple; see paper
"The information as absolute".

Since in this forum it is practically impossible to point the URLs directly, the paper can be found by Google (placing this title in Google line) which re-address on some another site where the link is acceptable.

Cheers

[Patrick]

We're as much a part of reality as anything else. There is no "different" reality for the schizophrenic. He/she inhabits the same reality we do. He/she, however, is schizophrenic. Why posit the existence of separate "realities" to explain such differences?