Reality
What is reality? Are we real? It is a question that have plagued the minds of people. Descartes had a very interesting idea about all of us are dreamt up by an evil genius. Hah, evil genius. More like clueless idiot.
Plato of course has another idea. We are chained to the wall inside a cave and behind us people are creating shadow puppets, so all we can see are shadows, and that the real world is outside the cave. Great...really...where do you think the Matrix idea came from, folks?
Let's go all the way to Locke now. The great Locke. What we experience is what is real. Yay, someone without a pessimistic view.
Me...well, i think it's a daft question. Where are we? In our universe. What are we trying to say is real? our universe. Are we real? you tell me. What do you believe? If you think we are, then we are. If you think we're not, which I'm still not sure how you can say so, then we are not.
What people do is looking our universe from the outside, Plato for one, which is a mistake. It is impossible for us, limited as we are to look at the universe from the outside. We can imagine a very very inaccurate image in our head, but then we are still in our universe, or more accurately, in ourselves. Because of what we are, we will always be stuck in ourselves.
Reality is in ourselves. It is not something physical. Rather, it is more of an idea that we have of what we want our life to be. It is something that every individual experience in life, both of the physical experience (existansialism) and the mental experience (rationalism). That is reality. It is not the question of are we real or not, but what reality is to you.
Jinx
Note: Even though I said such things about Plato, Locke, and Descartes i actually do respect them for having some good thoughts.
What is reality? Are we real? It is a question that have plagued the minds of people. Descartes had a very interesting idea about all of us are dreamt up by an evil genius. Hah, evil genius. More like clueless idiot.
Plato of course has another idea. We are chained to the wall inside a cave and behind us people are creating shadow puppets, so all we can see are shadows, and that the real world is outside the cave. Great...really...where do you think the Matrix idea came from, folks?
Let's go all the way to Locke now. The great Locke. What we experience is what is real. Yay, someone without a pessimistic view.
Me...well, i think it's a daft question. Where are we? In our universe. What are we trying to say is real? our universe. Are we real? you tell me. What do you believe? If you think we are, then we are. If you think we're not, which I'm still not sure how you can say so, then we are not.
What people do is looking our universe from the outside, Plato for one, which is a mistake. It is impossible for us, limited as we are to look at the universe from the outside. We can imagine a very very inaccurate image in our head, but then we are still in our universe, or more accurately, in ourselves. Because of what we are, we will always be stuck in ourselves.
Reality is in ourselves. It is not something physical. Rather, it is more of an idea that we have of what we want our life to be. It is something that every individual experience in life, both of the physical experience (existansialism) and the mental experience (rationalism). That is reality. It is not the question of are we real or not, but what reality is to you.
Jinx
Note: Even though I said such things about Plato, Locke, and Descartes i actually do respect them for having some good thoughts.
posted by Jinx at 7:59 AM
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