What is the limit of reality?

Question

Our perception of reality is limited by our senses and nervous system. We have built exterior extentions to expand this perception.

An example sight. We have 4 known cells that sense photons of light. A rod and three cones. The rod senses the presence of photons and is responsible for for black and white/motion detection. The three cones sense specific wavelengths of light red, blue, and green. With these simple beginings we can sense a rainbow of color within a certain range of wave of photons wavelengths.

We build tools that project wavelengths and senses beyond our vision into our visual field. Infra red night vision for example. The electron microscope is another. These tools give us glimpses into other realities but they distort that reality into our reality.

Answer 1

Our reality is limited by first our perception but more importantly our knowledge. Most of the knowledge I (or anyone else) have is gained by the experiences of other people. So by increasing your ability to learn and then increasing the amount you learn, you are able to gain a larger scope of reality.

Example: Gypsy children in Romania didn't understand that other nations don't speak Romanian as their native language. When they had English-speaking teachers trying to speak to them in Romanian, they just believed the teachers were retarded.

By increasing their knowledge of their world and surroundings, they would have a better grasp on reality.

But seeing as knowledge is variable from person to person, so is reality.

Answer 2

Very good question. I guess i would say that reality is anything but limited. Reality, in us humans, is categorized by what we are able to see, hear, touch, smell, taste, by what is presented in front of our senses, like you said, and what we are able to understand from those perceptions. Unfortunately our senses can only perceive so much, to some point, they are limited. So knowing how flawed and limited we are, as a race, biologically, psychologically, how can we assume that what we perceive, through whatever sense it may be, is the "real deal" when to some point we are only perceiving the maximum that our bodies are able to perceive. Reality in the end becomes no more than a subjective point of view, either from us humans or simply... from the house pet. Each individual organism perceives the world through different "eyes", sometimes seeing things as they pertain to them in their surroundings or simply see what they "want" to see, which a lot of the time is not what's really there. The reality of something can take many forms, in the end it all depends on who or what we are and how open or close our minds are to understand what we are being presented with.

Answer 3

I think the only way we will be able to see past this reality is if we managed to get the sixth sense.

The realities your talking about are all the same realities. Just different perspectives of it. The only way we would be able to see a different reality is if we entered a different dimension or became something different such as a spirit with out a body to hinder us. Only then would we be able to see different realities. With our current brains and knowledge it is impossible to see or understand a different reality. For example, try to imagine a perfect world with free will. How can people have the freedom to do evil and still live in a perfect state (heaven). We just cannot understand.

Answer 4

Reality is the limit or the end. We are traveling to reach it. In an individuals life he treats his knowledge as his reality. As he knows more, the world expands and his reality has a wider horizon. Staying at a point of vanity thinking it is reality, he travels to find a larger horizon. So throughout our life we will be in vanity to reach reality.

Answer 5

what's actuality, yet in hassle-free terms an infinitely complicated logical gadget? the international DOES revolve around a deterministic gadget - deterministically random, this is. instruction concept could be lots greater in all probability than quantum mechanics, however the reason that there is no longer a bustling field is that there is not any benefit to determining the place "you're proscribing actuality". For actuality is self-proscribing, suffocating the realm of objectives, techniques, passions!

Answer 6

Our comprehension of it is our limit.

Try explaining to an ANT what a swimming pool is used for. Realities limits are different from Sciences.

Answer 7

Good question and good answers above.

I wonder how religious people perceive god?
Within the limit of reality, or beyond????

Answer 8

Reality is just beyond our grasp...only that, the hardest thing to accept is reality..and the last thing to realize...most of us try to see beyond the reality and make our own judgment instead...

Answer 9

The limit of reaality is an individuals perception of it. (What is possible and used naturally without assistance from artifical sources).

Answer 10

What reality? How can we prove beyond doubt that we didn't create our own existence...it may just be my perception.