What Is Reality?- Part 1 (The Question)

What is reality? Is it strictly the world based on sense-experience as perceived through the medium of the physical senses? How justified is this claim? Socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality arise when there is common agreement by society on the interpretation of sense-experience phenomena. Such interpretations may result in the postulation of the so-called scientific laws of nature. Yet, these interpretations are just “interpretations”. One never knows when some brilliant person will come along and show that some aspect of our present socially-accepted interpretation of sense-experience phenomena is no longer valid and propose some other interpretation in its place. This indeed is the history of science in which several scientific laws and theories have undergone modification or even rejection in some cases. When can we ever say that we know things as they are? Or perhaps more importantly, can we really know things as they are? What really is the criterion for reality?
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marlindap

Your reference to the heart in this blog on reality is unclear to me.
Perhaps you can elaborate on it.
sometimes how we feel is our reality
marlindap
Thank You.
It's easy! It's being alive as a human being with your eyes open and your heart beating, as long as you're destined to live for. Then when you're dead you won't be asking such stupid questions! laugh
Re the comment by viking which I view as a direct insight into reality
and Marlindap's reference to the heart and her saying
sometimes how we feel is our reality,
I wish to quote Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician/philosopher:

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
fiorenza

Thanks for your very pragmatic response.
I think Wittgenstein managed to figure it out. The trouble is, nobody can understand what he says about it. dunno
Great blog socrates.
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I have been taught that each of our own realities exist due to what we project, as living co-creators. (Just like what is described in part by "The Secret")
Those personal realities intertwine to become the world in this timeline as we understand it. Just like the hard stone you can hold between your fingers, which is composed of atoms which are mostly space, everything we see and touch becomes the illusion as we perceive it.
If we were to become elevated beings, we would perceive everything differently from life experiences as our perception is changed due to being evolved. Just think how we would perceive things a couple of millennia from now..
As Einstein once stated: "If we ever used 100% of our brain, we would become pure energy"
Just think how everything else would look? Pretty amazing stuff.

dunno
Java4joe

"I have been taught that each of our own realities exist due to what we project, as living co-creators. (Just like what is described in part by "The Secret")
Those personal realities intertwine to become the world in this timeline as we understand it."


Thanks for your interesting input on reality stated above.
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