Reality
Reality are the things in
life that are
commonly observed and
verified to
exist, things that are
consistent
and not just
random
or
imaginary.
Reality is something that is
perceived as real and is physically
experienced by the
senses. But reality can
be
manipulated by
propaganda,
beliefs,
biases,
fantasies,
illusions,
simulations,
assumptions,
language, and also be
influenced by conformity or
mass hysteria, so reality
is
relative, and reality is not the
exact same
experience for
everyone.
Reality
doesn't exist until you
measure important
aspects of reality, such as
objects and their properties,
possibility and
necessity,
space and time,
change,
causation, and
the relation between
matter
and mind. Any reality without
accurate measurements and
details is just a
subjective
opinion. Reality is a product of both the
observer and the
object being
measured. Reality is
comprehending the whole picture
and
understanding most of the
parts that make the whole picture. Of course
you can't know everything,
so any
description of reality will
always be narrow in scope. Your reality is what you
choose to believe, or
what you have been told to believe,
or it's a little of both. So your reality is
everything you know, and
everything you think you know.
Your reality is not the exact same reality as someone else's. We may share
certain facts in life, but we do not share the exact same circumstances or
share the exact same experiences or share the exact same memories. The
best we can do is
build a consensus,
like with the
constitution and the
bill of rights. But if we
can't even understand our
commonalities, then we will have a hard time defining our reality as a
species on planet earth. Humans are not united on planet earth, which is
one disturbing reality that we must improve.
Real is something capable of being
treated as fact
and something that is
being or occurring in actuality
and having a verified existence and
substance
that
coincides with reality. Real is
something that is
not
an illusion,
not fantasy,
not imaginary or a feeling of
intuition. Real is
something that is no less than what is stated and worthy of a name and reflecting
the essential or genuine character of something. Real is something that should not be taken
lightly. Something fixed or
immovable. Real in math is any rational or irrational
number.
Realism is the state of being actual or
real. The attribute of accepting the
facts of life and favoring
practicality and
literal truth.
In
philosophy realism is the
philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not
perceived and that
abstract
concepts exist independent of their names.
Metaphysics.
Realist is a person who
sees the world
as it literally is, and
deals with it accordingly. A
philosopher who
believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone
thinking of them.
Confident -
Idealist
-
Problem Solver.
Veracity is conformity to
objective reality. The
quality of being correct,
true,
or close to the true value. The quality of being
ethically truthful and
having the unwillingness to tell lies.
Reality is
combining all of your
experiences and
your
knowledge of the world
in order to accurately
understand how
things appear to you, and
to
determine the
state of the world as it really is, rather than
what you
believe the world to be.
Objective Reality is not
taught in any school or in any university. As a result, most people live
in a
fantasy world without even
knowing it. This is not
normal.
Understanding
reality helps us
predict things
by
probability. But reality is
multifaceted. The parts by
themselves don't explain the whole and the whole by itself does not
explain the parts.
Reality is
relative, just like
time and space is
relative, it depends on the observer. But what if the observer is an
idiot, or, what if
many observers think
alike and they don't have access to information that
allows for a different perspective?
Reality is the beginning of a conversation, reality is not a conclusion.
Realistic is
showing a
sensible and
practical awareness of
things as they are, and having a good grip on the reality of a situation
with the understanding of what can be done and what cannot be done.
Something that resembles the actual truth about life.
Actual is existing in
fact
and not merely
potential or
possible. Taking place in reality and not
pretended or
imitated.
Actually is an actual fact.
Actuality is the state of actually existing
objectively.
Tangible is something perceptible by the
senses especially the
sense of touch. Capable of being treated as
fact.
Corporeal is having
material or
physical form or
substance. Affecting or characteristic of the
body as opposed to the
mind or
spirit.
Corporeal
the physical substance or
matter that
has rest mass and (usually) also volume.
Incorporeal.
Material World refers to the
physical world
where we live, work and play, whereby all our
natural senses, like sense
of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, movement, and feeling, are capable
of grasping the concrete realities like people, places, things as they
appear to us.
Materialism.
Substance is real physical
matter of which a person or thing
consists. The
choicest or most essential or most
vital part of some idea
or experience. The idea that is intended. What a communication that is
about something is about. A particular kind or species of matter with
uniform properties. The property of
holding together and retaining its
shape.
Chemical Substance.
Substantive is something having a firm
basis in reality and being therefore important, meaningful, or
considerable. Something having a separate and independent existence. Being
on topic and prompting thought. Substantive in law is defining rights and
duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are
established.
Embody is to
represent something in
bodily form or to represent
or
express something
abstract in tangible form.
Construct is where the
existence of the thing may be said to depend upon a subject's mind. This
contrasts with a real object, where existence does not seem to depend on
the existence of a mind.
Matrix.
De facto is existing in
fact whether with
lawful authority or not. In reality or
fact.
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, even though they are
not officially recognized by laws.
Valid.
De facto
describes practices that exist in reality, even though they are
not officially recognized by laws. It is
commonly used to refer to what happens in practice, in contrast with de
jure ("by law"), which refers to things that happen
according to law.
Entity is
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct
existence, living or nonliving.
What Is
Reality? (youtube) - Reality is
information. Information is a form of
symbolism. Geometric symbols
represent themselves which humans give meaning to.
Meaning is a
comparison that we make to our past
memories that allows us to make a
subjective choice.
What ever Reality is, it's Freaking Brilliant!
Real Life
describes actual events, people, activities and interactions. "
IRL" stands
for "
In Real Life".
Virtual
Reality -
Game
Addiction.
Empirical
is the knowledge or source of knowledge acquired by means of the
senses, particularly by
observation and
experimentation.
Consensus Reality is the generally
agreed-upon version of
reality within a community or society, based
on a
consensus view that is
shaped by
shared experiences and
understandings. This understanding arises from the inherent differences in
individual perspectives or subjectivities relating to
knowledge or ontology,
leading to uncertainties about what is real. While various viewpoints
exist, people strive to establish a consensus, serving as a pragmatic
guide for social norms. The appeal to
consensus arises from the fact that humans do not fully understand or
agree upon the nature of knowledge or ontology, often making it uncertain
what is real, given the
vast inconsistencies between individual
subjectivities. We can, however, seek to obtain some form of
consensus,
with others, of what is real. We can use this
consensus as a pragmatic
guide, either on the assumption that it seems to approximate some kind of
valid reality, or simply because it is more "practical" than
perceived
alternatives. Consensus reality therefore refers to the agreed-upon
concepts of reality which people in the world, or a culture or group,
believe are real (or treat as real), usually based upon their common
experiences as they believe them to be; anyone who does not agree with
these is sometimes stated to be "in effect...
living in a different
world." Throughout
history this has also raised a social question as to
the effects of a society in which all individuals do not agree upon the
same reality. Children have sometimes been described or viewed as
"inexperience[d] with consensus reality," though are described as such
with the expectation that their perspective will progressively form closer
to the consensus reality of their society as they age.
Collective Consciousness
Social
Constructionism suggests various facets of
social reality—such as concepts,
beliefs, norms, and
values—are
formed through continuous interactions and
negotiations among
society's members, rather than empirical observation of physical reality.
The theory of social constructionism posits that much of what individuals
perceive as 'reality' is actually the outcome of a dynamic process of
construction influenced by social conventions and structures. Examples of
social constructs range widely, encompassing the assigned value of money,
conceptions of
concept of self/self-identity,
beauty standards, gender,
language, race, ethnicity,
social class, social
hierarchy, nationality,
religion, social
norms, the modern calendar and other units of time, marriage,
education, citizenship,
stereotypes, femininity and masculinity, social institutions, and even the
idea of 'social construct' itself. These constructs are not
universal truths but are
flexible entities that can vary dramatically across different cultures and
societies. They arise from
collaborative consensus and are shaped and maintained through
collective human interactions, cultural practices, and shared beliefs.
This articulates the view that people in society
construct ideas or
concepts that may not exist without the existence of people or
language to validate those concepts,
meaning without a society these constructs would cease to exist.
Reality Tunnel is a theory that, with a subconscious set of
mental filters formed from
beliefs and experiences, every individual
interprets the same world
differently, hence "
Truth is
in the eye of the beholder". It is similar to the idea of
representative realism.
Mental
Representation is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that
represents external reality or its abstractions. Mental
representation is the
mental imagery of things that are not
actually present to the senses.
Base Reality is the idea that there are
multiple layers of reality,
that progressively go deeper, until you get what reality actually is.
Instead, what you experience is a very watered down version of real
reality.
Simulation.
Reality is when emergent properties are real, and
not imaginary entities, but have a
grounding in the physical world. Efficacy in emergent properties are
efficiently
causally
linked to their
component parts in that the emergence of the emergent property happens
inherently with its parts.
Emergence occurs
when a
complex entity has
properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and
emerge only when they interact in a wider whole. Emergence plays a central
role in theories of integrative levels and of complex systems. For
instance, the phenomenon of life as studied in biology is an emergent
property of chemistry and quantum physics.
Being is
an extremely broad concept encompassing
objective and
subjective features of
reality and existence.
What is Time? -
How much do we Know?
-
How many Layers?
What is
Reality? Things that we can, to the best of our knowledge, figure out and define
by ways of
Scientific Research and
Experience.
Using this particular method we cannot include personal beliefs, personal
opinions or theory’s because these things cannot be easily confirmed. Though
Religious Beliefs,
Theory’s and
personal opinions are essential in keeping our minds open, we should always have
areas of research that stick to what definitions we know using the knowledge
that we can confirm. This will help minimize confusion and misunderstandings.
You don't have to know
Physics or know the inner workings of an
atom to help explain Reality, because the deeper you go, the farther away you
will become to what is known. Not to say that these journeys are a waste of
time. On the contrary we should always have as many people looking at as many
possibilities as we can.
Multiple
Dimensions,
Holograms
and
Religious Beliefs should never be ignored. And
of course you can never be fully aware of everything that there is in this
world. But at the least you should try to be
aware of as many things as possible, and at the
same time, confirm these things with as many people as possible. So the first
thing to do is to define what criteria will be used to measure reality. Then get
as many people you can to answer theses questions and thus end up with some kind
of consensus for a basic definition for the word reality. Reality is best
understood using some form of confirmation. Do you see what I see? Do you
understand the way I understand? We cannot use one set of eyes to explain
Reality. It’s not “Will it still be there if I’m not there to look at it?” Of
course it will be. What do you think? You’re the only one who’s looking?
And after all that, Reality is something that is
continually evolving, so what might be considered reality today may not be
reality tomorrow. Reality is not always a constant or is reality something that
you can always be
Aware of. Are there two realities?
Locally Real is when local means that objects can be influenced only
by their surroundings and that any
influence cannot travel
faster than light.
It's like putting a photograph in front of a video surveillance
camera so that the person looking at the video monitor thinks they are
looking at a live video, but they are not. So now people can
work behind the scenes without anyone seeing
them. Blinding you from reality.
Reality is Relative.
Reality is an
illusion when you're unaware that you are living in a fantasy world.
Illusion is an illusion when you don't know it's an illusion. When you
know something is an illusion, is it still an illusion?
Kids and adults spend way too much time living in
their own personal fantasy world then they
do Reality. And the reason is that people are not even
aware when they are in a
fantasy world, because they have not yet totally defined what reality is.
So the difference between reality and fantasy is blurred. You need to
define these two things. And you need to practice awareness. You also need
have a
baseline, and you need to
keep
learning and experiencing.
Potential.
Reality is a word to describe what is, and what may happen in the future. Humans
have many methods for
measuring and
predicting
what is, and what might happen. Reality was here before humans existed, because
cause and effect has been measured in fossils of life forms predating
humans. Don't confuse
consciousness with reality. Because just being aware does not mean that you
are living in reality. And don't think that you know what reality is, because
reality for humans is based on what we have learned so far about our reality. So
human reality is evolving and expanding as we learn more, thus reality will
never stay totally the same for humans. Though reality looks weird and
unpredictable at times, we know that
the more we learn about reality, the less weird reality becomes, and the
more predictable reality becomes. No matter how many
dimensions that you can perceive, or what
time scale or
size scale you use to compare things too, you are only measuring reality,
you are not totally defining what reality is. Even though there are an infinite
amount of possibilities, this does not stop humans from using the knowledge that
we have learned so far to measure what reality is today. And when we can confirm
our reality with other people, we know that everything is not just in our minds.
People who are
blind or deaf still have similar realities to people who can see and hear.
This is because humans have other methods for measuring reality, like using
touch, taste, smell and feelings, as well as having other people helping them
measure reality. So everyone has the ability to learn, and thus, everyone has
other ways of constructing a reality. Even though each person experiences
reality differently from one person to the next, this does not change the
reality of the situation. Reality is learning about what our current state is.
You can pretend that you don't live in reality, but that does not change
reality, it only changes how you experience reality. We don't change reality, We
change, as we learn more about what our reality is at this current time, but not
necessarily what reality will be like tomorrow. Reality is learning, learning is
reality. You can say that we can change reality, but we are not changing
reality, we are changing what we have learned about what reality is, or what
it's going to be. When we die, reality will still be here. Because when we see
other people die, this does not change reality. It may change our experience
with reality, but it will not change reality as a whole. Reality is learning,
learning is reality.
Normal is a
state or a condition or a
behavior that is considered to be
usual, typical or
standard, or something that is regarded as
an example of what is usual or average, which
depends on the
comparison. Normal is something that is
in accordance with
scientific laws.
Normal in psychology is someone who has
average intelligence and development. Normal is something that is not
strange, insane, abnormal or
crazy. Normal is being
mentally healthy and
physically healthy
within
certain limits
and with a known
baseline.
Normal is being free from deficiencies or defects. Normal is behavior that
is
free from violence or
coercion and is
not abusive
or exploitive or
misleading.
Something that is
different can be
normal. Conforming is normal, but
popularity is not an accurate
gauge for what is considered to be normal.
Everyone Lives in Exile from Reality.
People are being forced to live in a
reality that is corrupt and
dysfunctional. Mostly because of
the greed of
corporate criminals. To live in someone else's
sick delusional fantasy is not
living. It's murder.
Pragmatism rejects the idea that the function of thought is to
describe, represent, or
mirror reality. Instead, pragmatists consider
thought an instrument or tool for prediction, problem solving and action.
Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of
knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best
viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes.
The philosophy of
pragmatism “emphasizes the practical application of ideas by acting on
them to actually test them in human experiences.
When we use the word reality,
we are not 100 percent defining something, because nothing is 100
percent definitive, and there is no full 100 percent guarantee for complete
accuracy. But in order to make things easy and less complicated, we use
labels as a tool to make communication more effective and more efficient.
You can still get philosophical about reality if you want, but only when it's
necessary. If we want to have a mutual understanding, we need to use a universal
definition that helps us communicate. We are not saying that this particular
definition is definitive and that there are no other variations, because there
are other variations, but we only need them for certain situations when someone
has difficulty understanding, or wants to express a concern, or, when new
knowledge and information has been discovered that would require us to update
our definition of Reality, or any other word for that matter.
"Having no guarantee doesn't mean that you don't have any control."
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." -
Plutarch was a Greek biographer and essayist, known primarily for his
Parallel Lives and
Moralia.
A person's
reality
is closely related to how many questions that they can logically answer. For
Example: Knowing that you need water to live, but also knowing how clean the
water is? Knowing that you need food to live, but also knowing how healthy
the food is? Knowing
that the earth orbits around the sun, but also knowing why it does and how
that effects humans here on earth? We should know the things that we have
confirmed to be true, things
that can be
repeated in testing, a
consensus of information and
knowledge. But
popularity is not always an
accurate measurement for
value, or how certain words are understood. Reality does
not have a 'one meaning fits all' because reality is closely related to an
individuals own
perception
and the
education
or
level of knowledge they have acquired. So
reality can have
different meanings to different people. So the word 'Reality' cannot be used on
its own. Reality must be defined by the person using the word "Reality", so they
can be understood and people will know what they're saying when they use the word Reality in a
sentence.
Meanings.
"We may all be blind and we may all be fools, but we have clearly shown
that we all have the ability to
learn. So even if we cannot see what is real to us now, or if we do not have
the necessary information that allows us to fully understand what we see, we
will eventually, if we keep learning."
Objective Reality
means the state or quality of being
true even outside of a subject's
individual
biases, interpretations, feelings, and imaginings.
Valid -
Objective -
What is Life?
Quasi Realities
Quasi is having some
resemblance to what is
real and being
partly true to some degree
or partly similar.
Virtual
Reality -
Artificial Reality
-
Illusion of Control -
Language and Thoughts
Allegory of the Cave describes a gathering
of people who have
lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives,
facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from
things passing in front of a fire behind them, and they begin to give
names to these shadows. The shadows are as close as the
prisoners get to
viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner
who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the
wall do not make up reality at all, for he can perceive the true form of
reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. This idea was presented by the Greek philosopher
Plato in his work
the Republic (514a–520a).
Subjectivity -
Biased -
Pretending to Know -
Invalid Argument -
Ideology -
Bubble
Blind Men and an Elephant is a story of a group of blind men, who have
never come across an elephant before and who learn and conceptualize what
the elephant is like by touching it. Each blind man feels a different part
of the elephant body, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk.
They then describe the elephant based on their
partial experience and their
descriptions are in complete disagreement on what an elephant is. In some
versions, they come to suspect that the other person is dishonest and they
come to blows. The
moral of the parable
is that humans have a tendency to project their partial experiences as the
whole truth, ignore other people's partial experiences, and one should
consider that one may be partially right and may have partial information.
Relative.
Red Pill or
Blue Pill? (wiki) -
Philosophy of the Matrix
-
Blue Pill or Red Pill -
The Matrix (2/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD (video)
- There is a spoon,
but it's not really a
spoon, or is it just a spoon?
There's the "
reality is what you make it" and then there's "
the reality
that is not of your making."
"You can live in your own reality, but learning to
confirm your reality with others helps you to confirm at least some of the
world, otherwise you're doing nothing but guessing."
Reality
Tunnel with a subconscious set of mental filters formed from his or her
beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world
differently, hence "
Truth is in the eye of the beholder", "Is
truth in the eye of the beholder?"
Philosophical Realism is the belief that some aspects of reality are
ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, perceptions,
linguistic practices, beliefs, etc.
The world exists ‘out there’ independent of us. But ignorance distorts
reality, and ignorance also distorts the definition of reality.
Perceptual Evolution (PDF).
"The 2015 film called the
Room is a good example how reality can be shaped by our experiences
and from our lack of knowledge." "Everyone lives in a Room, it's
just that some people have a bigger room,
which some never leave."
Plane Esotericism
a plane other than the physical plane is conceived as a subtle state of
consciousness that transcends the known physical universe.
Subject in
philosophy is a being who has a
unique consciousness and/or
unique personal experiences, or an entity that has a relationship with
another entity that exists outside of itself (called an "object"). A
subject is an
observer and an object is a thing observed.
Qualia
is considered to be individual instances of subjective
conscious
experience, like the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the
perceived redness of an evening sky. As qualitative characters of
sensation, qualia stand in contrast to "propositional attitudes".
Subjective.
Reality Quotes
-
Multiverse (other
realities)
"
Escaping reality is only temporary. You cannot escape the responsibility
of tomorrow by evading it today."
"You can create your own reality to a certain point, the point where you either know or
don't know."
The only way to have any kind of consensus on
what reality is to have some kind of universal test that would help form a
meaning on what the major populations define the word reality to be.
Umwelt
meaning "
environment" or "surroundings", the "
biological foundations
that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and
signification in the human [and non-human] animal".
Consensus Reality
is that which is
generally agreed to be reality, based on a
consensus view.
Reality Distortion Field describes how the aliens
created their own
new world through mental force.
Popularity Dangers
-
Physics Observation
Flaws
Quantum
Mechanics concerned with processes involving
atoms and photons.
Occam's
Razor is when the simplest explanation is usually the correct one, which
means the one
reason with the fewest assumptions should be selected. To be able to explain a
phenomena by the simplest
hypothesis possible.
Philosophy -
Intelligence -
Awareness -
Fear
Core in game theory is the set of feasible allocations that cannot be
improved upon by a subset.
The
Primacy of Consciousness (youtube)
What reality are you creating for yourself? Isaac Lidsky: (video and
interactive text)
What the Bleep Do We Know!? 2004 (video on hulu) -
Wiki.
In order to break free
from the box that you're in, you first have to realize that there is a box,
second, you have to know what is outside the box.
The
Man with the X-ray Eyes is a 1963 independently made color science
fiction-horror film, where Dr. Xavier develops eye drops intended to
increase the range of human vision, allowing one to see beyond the
"visible" spectrum into the ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths and beyond.
Believing that testing on animals and volunteers will produce uselessly
subjective observations, he tests the drops on himself. Initially, Xavier
discovers that he can see through people's clothing, and he uses his
vision to save a young girl whose medical problem was misdiagnosed. Over
time and with continued use of the drops, Xavier's visual capacity
increases and his ability to control it decreases. Eventually, he can no
longer see the world in human terms, but only in forms of lights and
textures that his brain is unable to fully comprehend. Even closing his
eyes brings no relief from the darkness in his increasingly frightening
world, as he can now see through his closed eyelids. After accidentally
killing a friend, Xavier goes on the run, using his x-ray vision first to
work in a carnival, and then to win at gambling in a Las Vegas casino.
Xavier's eyes are altered along with his vision: first they become black
and gold, and then entirely black. To hide his startling appearance, he
wears dark wrap-around sunglasses at all times. Leaving Las Vegas, Xavier
drives out into the desert and wanders into a religious tent revival. He
tells the evangelist that he is beginning to see things at the edges of
the universe, including an "eye that sees us all" in the center of the
universe. The pastor replies that what he sees is "sin and the devil" and
quotes the Biblical verse, "If thine eye offends thee...pluck it out!"
Xavier chooses to blind himself rather than continuing to see anything
more.
How real does something have to be, in
order to be? Reality is not definitive. All we can do is share the same beliefs
on what reality is. You alone can not totally and accurately define reality,
because you have nothing to compare your reality too. That is why we need each
other.
Together we form reality. But when we are
separated, reality becomes skewed. So we must reaffirm our realities by
communicating more.
Singularitarianism
is not going to change our reality, that is the reality that is defined by the
laws of nature, it will only make it easier for us to control and to
adapt to our reality, which will make life a lot more enjoyable for
everyone, and also, it will make our possibilities almost limitless.
Superintelligence must be defined by humans first in order to recreate
Artificial
Intelligence.
Technologies are a responsibility that only
intelligent people can
manage effectively. So
Ignorance is
our biggest problem.