2006-07-10 15:27:31 · 9 answers · asked by dddaddy3000 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's very scary if you think about it. Your reality is formed from how you perceive it through your senses and mind's experiences. If you closed your eyes and felt a warmth on your skin you might think the sun was shining on you. Is it really? Or is that your perception of that experience. My daughter is schizophrenic and i have to remind her that her "reality" is just as she perceives it. To know what is the closest to the truth, she has to ask me. BUT even then the truth is only my perception of reality. It can really twist your head up if you think of it long enough. VERY good question, Maybe nothing really does exist and we are just fed memories and sensations like a movie. Good stuff for the sci fi channel. But then, where did these stretch marks come from? lol Oh, maybe they are just a memory and illusion too.
2006-07-10 15:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by Cherie M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do we know we didn't just end up where we are a second ago with all our memories intacted? How do we know what is here isn't a dream and what we dream isn't the "real world"? How do we know we haven't lived before and died and this is really heaven or hell? How do we know anything except with our senses. Do you believe you are real? Then you are. Can you touch the table in front of you? Smell the flowers outside? Hear the cars go by? Taste that ice cream you had? see what I just wrote? Your senses are telling what is real. Or something like that. Good luck figuring all this out. I'm still not sure :-)
2006-07-10 15:31:23 · answer #2 · answered by Linda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would you know? There is no way to step completely outside of the event that your trying to describe, therefore no true objectivity. You can say that all "reality" is filtered through our senses (if there are such things as senses) and that the filtering alters the experience. The filtered experience is then evaluated through valid and not so valid comparisons to past situations to give it meaning. Add a little pointless emotionalism and you now have your own unique version of reality.
2006-07-10 15:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by dg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love philosophy. If you are interested in philosophy there are lot more interesting and a lot more practical questions to spend your time on. The question of what is real, is very advanced. Start with something more grounded, like identity. What makes one object different than another. How many parts can you replace on a car before it becomes a different car, or does it ever?
2006-07-10 15:34:47 · answer #4 · answered by nat3dd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it has to. There has to be *something* for our perception of seeing and experience to act on. If it was all perception, it would be entirely mental, and we should then be able to control every aspect of our environment. But we can't, as there are others like us in the world who share our experience of it. However, many things, like money, only exist in our shared perceptions, and don't actually exist 'out there'; the bills exist, but they don't mean anything without our perceptions.
2006-07-10 15:32:48 · answer #5 · answered by DakkonA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of the Universe as a giant Hologram (look up the Holographic Theory) this will explain it.
2006-07-10 15:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by Derek W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question. if this sort of thing interests you, i would recommend you read Carlos Castaneda's works on the teachings of don Juan. he deals a lot with the perception of the world around us
2006-07-10 15:34:03 · answer #7 · answered by ♫jmann♫ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything really exists..Its real you can touch it see it etc...Come on I think you've lost your perception...
2006-07-10 17:52:34 · answer #8 · answered by hitmanhaman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
does anything "REALLY" exist?
most metaphysicians just assume it, when they think they're Discovering reality.
2006-07-10 15:34:29 · answer #9 · answered by -.- 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋