im so confused...............?

Question

philosphers are always trying to figure out whats real and what isnt. but i mean we are all humans and were all on this earth right? despite our perceptions everything IS real in this physical world right? dont bring anything philisophical into this, just tell me, this is real in the physical dimention, with other people, and other living things that exist independently from us right?

Answer 1

Everything's real. It's up to us to decide how much importance each thing has to us.

Answer 2

All of human thought process is a matter of perspective. There'll be a million different answers and all of them correct to the mind in question. Only the divine know what is divine. We can only see our perceptions due to our limitations to our 5 (or 6) sense faculties. For this reason we may never see the full universe as it remains but I do find that we can be perfectly content with our current position for that same reason.

Answer 3

Yes we are all real, you did not create me or anyone else on here.
You have however seemed to have created a way to drive yourself crazy. You did not even know i existed until I answered your question yet I've been around for years living my life in the same world you are living in breathing the same air you do.
Its good to analyze things and question things just try not to become a victim to your over analyzing mind.

Answer 4

I have been working on the question for quite a long time, and from my admittedly limited 3 dimensional viewpoint, and through an extensive amount of observation, interviews, reading and contemplation, not to mention experimental data, I have come up with this theory that I will be expounding in my book "Notes in Quantum Philosophy, or, Why there must be God" whenever I get around to re-writing my initial exploratory essays. Reality for us physical biological creatures on this planet we call earth is all there is for us while we blink and think and talk, however, every atom in existence vibrates, and we (humans) vibrate in very specific human patterns, we are carbon based, and so are our brains, the center of the specific pattern that differentiates one humans vibrational pattern from another. Each of us vibrating, causing what could be thought of as a background noise at the topmost end of the vibrational spectrum, think EM with Light being in the middle, FM radio near the top, and Gamma Radiation at the bottom. My theory says that all these biological creatures sitting on this planet create a "Carrier Wave" that in theory anyways could support a consciousness such as a human mind, not the specific data embedded in the brain, but the conscious perception of self and the human experiences we keep consciously in our mind. Possibly at death, the re-living of personal events is an automatic "Download" into this vibrational "Carrier Wave" overlapping each particle in that persons immediate vicinity. Enter Quantum Physics, and a little known concept called Quantum Tunneling, in 3d this works by letting the vibrational component, the "wave" of a particle at high energy (velocity) to carry information about that particle to the other side of a barrier, allowing Scientists to see the particle emerge relatively unchanged from the other side of the barrier, essentially "Tunneling" through it. Step out and into the 4th dimension, time and look impartially at this 3d brain struggling to continue in death and ramping up in its electrochemical energy as fear, Adrenalin and a myriad of other physical effects increase the overall energy of an already energetic Bio-Chemo-Electrical device we call the brain. The ultimate barrier to continuing that vibration is Death, when all the electrons cease to flow, the chemicals degrade and the components of life as we know them stop. The moment before death is where that vibration is at its sharpest relief, and with this carrier wave of background general vibration ready to start conducting the new CHANGE in the formerly physically vibrating signature. Think of it, there is no vacuum between the atoms of each brain cell, the bone that makes up the skull. In fact the skin is the thinnest barrier of all to this EM radiation I am sure sometime in the future Scientists will be able to detect and quantify. At that point the person could conceivably be still very much alive and well outside their dying shell. They would be defined by their imagination and therefore "Heaven" or "Hell" would be the minds translation for places in this nonphysical environment full of other human vibrational signatures, your family and friends long passed on, not to mention ancient entities (former humans) who have very longstanding viewpoints on the afterlife. So very easily, the people who hold the Bible and the Koran could be right from their perspective, however you would only ever see the afterlife as your imagination fills in the blanks, and therefor if you were Christian, you would find God to be as the Christians know Him to be, whereas a Pagan would see Her as the Pagan expects Her to be. In the end they are all right! Neither Energy, nor Matter can be destroyed and this vibrational spark that says "I think therefor I am" and cries out to its last gasp, "I want to live!" could conceivably continue to ripple through time and space on the background innate vibrational frequency of the matter that "God" turned ITself into in the first place during the "Big Bang". Experimentally verifying this would be very difficult because we would have to create a device that would be sensitive enough to pick up this background vibrational frequency. Difficult because that device and all the working parts that make it up would be vibrating on that frequency itself. But I intend to find out somehow someday, possibly in the depths of space with a crystal made of anti particles, who knows? The next question becomes if we accept for now this theory, what happens when this vibration decides to overlap and shape a babies brain either before or after birth? Re-incarnation suddenly becomes a bit more plausible! That is my answer for now anyways, it will grow and develop and possibly flip, but... philosophy has no place there, I just want the facts, philosophy grapples with unknowable questions, lets test these ideas and see what happens!

Answer 5

Although I don't agree with everything that Aungustus said I have to say that is basically the right answer. In my upcoming book "If you can't convice them, then confuse them" I will expand on my theory.

Answer 6

Everything is only as real as you think it is. You and everything around you are only the sum of your perceptions.

Answer 7

How can philosophy not be brought into a question like this? Either way it goes, if you think this is real or not, that would be your philosophy.

Answer 8

Well, it doesn't really seem like you're open to any other answers other than the one you've supplied...so...this is me...NOT giving you a philosophical answer to your question in the Philosophy section.

Answer 9

The answer is hidden within a grain of wheat.

Answer 10

Hmm ... how can I NOT answer a philosophical question (because that IS what you have asked) philosophically? By definition any answer I give WILL be philosophical, because the question was philosophical. Do you see my problem?