Reality is relative to each individual, therefor there is no single true reality. Agree? Disagree?

Question

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Many people are answering the question by pointing out that the world around us can be measured and tested and using this as an indication that there is a single true readily.

All observations and measurements have to be conceived of and filtered by the perceptions of individuals.
While the individuals may agree on the out comes of such experiments, wouldn’t they still interpret them according to there own perceptions?

Answer 1

Disagree.

Reality is the medium in which all individuals exist. The way we interpret and interact with it may differ, but the essential facts of it remain the same. Yes, a blind man can't see a rainbow; but anyone with eyes, in the right place and time will see the rainbow. If the blind man points a camera in the right direction, they will get a photo of the rainbow whether they can see the rainbow or the photo.

But there is another aspect to this, and it relates to the nature of measurement and comparison, and the speed of transmission of information. If I am half a mile from someone who yells my name, and someone else is a quarter mile, that other person will hear the shout before me. If the shout is to be used as some kind of event marker, it becomes necessary to know the speed of transmission of sound. With that information, I can judge all of the distances properly, and I will know the time of the signal.

This subject is at the heart of Einsteins General Theory of Relativity. No one has written better about it, with the possible exception, in my opinion, of the Indian physicist Jayant Narliker.

Answer 2

Reality is not relative. There are facts and situations that we must live with. There are things that exist and control all occurrences in the universe. They are what forms reality. Even if you learn how to overcome some of them (IE: working against gravity) you haven't changed reality (gravity still exists) you have simply learned enough to either make that particular thing work for you or you have learned how to use other things to balance the what are trying to overcome.

Even within human society there is a reality. That reality is the set of laws and customs that the society has chosen to follow. This reality can change as the society changes but it is still the set of parameters within which the members of the particular society must function. Even if you are breaking a rule you have to deal with the consequences of breaking that rule.

Answer 3

Disagree..... Love can replace, it would want to lessen. Love may even disappear thoroughly. Love is a body of concepts, an concepts-set, a way of questioning about somebody else. Love is many times certain by using complication-free pastimes, yet even as those pastimes grow to be diverse, so could also the love crumble. authentic deep love, may even turn in to bitter hatred even as the circumstances that once further both mutually, replace so thoroughly that both grow to be competitors, opposing each and each and every others each and every idea and bypass. genuine love even if, the variety that does very last invariably, isn't in holding with condition, or complication-free pastimes. It starts with those, yet as those fade, they're replaced with a love for an extra, not for what you've in complication-free, yet because of who you're getting to at least one yet another. Love isn't demanding. Love is affected individual. Love can take a second seat and stand interior the historic past without anger. Love forgives, no count what occurs...even if the fellow does not forgive back. Love is eternal, once formed, and this type of love does very last invariably. Love differences, and is not threatened by using that adjust.

Answer 4

The manifest world around us that can be observed and tested is reality. However, it is the perception of reality that is unique to each individual. Thus, irrespective of what reality is or isn't, each of us goes through our lives in a "perceptual bubble" based upon our mental and emotional conditioning through out our lives, which may or may not conform to others' perceptual bubbles or to reality itself. These perceptual bubbles are our mental maps of reality which filter the information we receive from our environment. Thus, one can have many witnesses to a single crime who all disagree as to the elements of the event. Or, one can have a person, who by most standards is a success, but who only sees himself as a failure. More commonly, you have a person who thinks of themselves as a failure, and subsequently, chooses circumstances that confirm that belief, while avoiding and downplaying any circumstances that would disagree with that belief.

Answer 5

Certainly Not!
Like it or not, You live in a world governed by Physical Laws... The billions of stars passing over your mind every day & night show the way.
The various laws are just our best interpretation of reality, and it does change over time...
Newton, Plank, & Einstein translate for you...
Things like "String Theory" must be understood...

I wouldn't worry too much about the Individual's relationship with "Reality"... The individual's ability to see, understand, learn, and comprehend matters..

Answer 6

I disagree to an extent. There is one absolutely true reality but none of us are privy to it. If two people witness a car accident they may give differing accounts of what exactly occured when in actuality only one set of events occured. However, reality is definitely warped by perception and we all do live in our own little realities. So to sum things up, only one set of events actually occurs but we all have poor observational skills and so your statement is both true and false.

Answer 7

This sounds like the skeptics argument, one for which I've always liked. I agree with it. We have just our five senses and most importantly our minds, and since we do not share the same mind we interpret reality differently. Just look at the diversity of religions. To each religion their god is the creator, part of their own reality, but to others' they do not view their god as real.

Answer 8

I think some things are universal, like gravity. But everyone can have their own perspective on an issue or an event. Ask five people what they think of a movie, or talk to a journalist who has to figure out what happened in a multi-car pileup!

Answer 9

I agree. Despite the fact that material aspects of our world are universal, all in all each person has their own world. Each person has their own perceptions likes and dislikes, creating thier own personal world.

Answer 10

Honestly, I'm not sure. Perhaps I'm just imagining this relaity, but another person believes this is a true reality, does that make our "realities" different? if so, then yes I agree