Reality
Historical discussion about reality, perception, collective consciousness, and whether time is part of an illusion.
What is your take on reality? To me it's a complex illusion, including time itself. A fractile reality comes to mind here.
-Marc
Archived source: https://web.archive.org/web/20091009081702/http://www.spacetimeandtheuniverse.com:80/against-mainstream/2697-reality.html
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FreeCool
I am almost convinced that reality is just an individual interpretation of different signals that reaches the brain from the senses or that are generated in another part of the brain and interpreted as such. The only part I do not understand is the perception of other people. If I think that this keyboard is real, then it is my perception and it could be just an illusion, right? But if my wife also thinks this keyboard is real, then it is our perception, our illusion, or it is real because more than one person is seeing it or feeling it? Or is my wife also an illusion and therefore you guys don't exist at all, only me? That is what is driving me crazy!
BaCaRdi
It's called collective consciousness. We will be getting into the observer and the observed. Schrodinger's cat anyone?
-BaC
arcshade
I believe that the entire universe is a fractile, fully interconnected system of abstract creation. Space is rippled in the form of energy. Particles are snapshots of this energy. Language and consciousness build systems of matter into larger units. Everything that exists does so right now. Time is a result of the memory of each moment to the next.
When I move my hand in a wave, you see a hand going back and forth. However, at any one moment, there is only one hand in one position. The keyboard is real because it exists, I touch it, and it interacts with myself as well as anyone else. A keyboard is not inherently real, but is real because we made it real.
BaCaRdi
Well said. It's truly a fractal reality.