2007-01-15 03:41:03 · 15 answers · asked by Diesel Weasel 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Not "means". Only perception. And our perceptions could be wrong or even imagined, but THAT we are perceiving SOMETHING cannot be denied - but nor can it be proven to anyone else than us.
2007-01-15 03:45:55 · answer #1 · answered by All hat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This reminds me of the 13th floor. As a child, I was asked by a teacher to take a note up to Mrs. Harrison on the 13th floor. I grabbed the note and headed for the stairs. When I realized that builders don't add a thirteenth floor, I knew I couldn't get to it. I also noticed that I didn't have a note from my teacher and that I didn't even leave my chair and "Mrs. Harrison" wasn't even a teacher at my school. Our perception of reality is what we make of it, and as trite as it sounds, there is no way of knowing what is real and what is not. Is life a dream? If so, whose dream is it? God's? Doubtful, otherwise he'd have made mention of himself by now. Your dream? Doubtful, otherwise you can do anything you want. The Buddha's? Doubtful, otherwise he would have the power to control it. From the looks of it, our reality is as real as it gets, but at the same time can maintain that unreal feeling you get when you are running on 3 hours of sleep and a huge coffee (or as I call this: Perpetual Unreality).
There's no way of ever knowing what is real (if anything) and we can never tell if life is a dream. So many theories (philosophical, metaphysical, religious, etc.) lie around the basis that what we see is what we get. But how can this be true when intangible concepts exist?
For me, I choose the drugs. They help me escape reality because (let's face it) reality sucks. Fun Rules. If everything revolved around the fact that our reality is real, this question would never exist because we would know it. But we have evolved to such an extent that we are on the brink of finding out a truth. Don't tell me you don't feel it, either. Every day, there is a feeling that there is something more to life that we are missing, and every day, I feel mankind getting one step closer to finding that link. Hopefully it is within our lifetimes that we find it. Otherwise we must wait for death, the ultimate reality of life.
2007-01-15 13:17:25 · answer #2 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
If you have faith that you are real. If you do not feel that you are real then why are you even bothering to ask the question. Maybe the only real test is in dying. Then you might find out the result but at what cost. You can toy with the "Reality is only what we perceive it to be" school of philosophy and waste the next 100 years of your life. Just have faith that you are in a state of reality and enjoy what you have instead of worrying so much about what you are not. If the "proof is in the pudding" as they say then have a bowl of it.
2007-01-15 11:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by John Galt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reality is everywhere. We Just like to live in complete fantasies. We as human beings with imaginations hate the reality of things, like love, and friendship. SO instead we dream or watch things that are sadly impossible when it comes to reality. But people need to realize that we need to face reality and deal with it. Books and movies are a way to escape, but don't waste your life by doing that. "Fantasies are what we dream for, reality is what we live in" we can't change that.
2007-01-15 12:16:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The means would involve explaining that there is no reality. That effort would require the image of an absolute void. When you can imagine that, reality exists.
2007-01-15 12:16:27 · answer #5 · answered by highlander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the realm of human reality, there is no way to rely upon our fallible senses to determine the real and/or unreal. You can be rest assured that, because of this, there is only one question to be asked of ourselves: Does it really matter for all intents and purposes. By the by, If this really bothers you, just read the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Hope that helps you in your endeavours towards enlightenment.
Roy K.
2007-01-15 11:52:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their are some who say this is all just a dream, but then someone or something would have to be dreaming this. If you have to ask the question, I think you can be sure there is such a thing as reality.
2007-01-15 12:25:21 · answer #7 · answered by Mister Farlay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, "I think therefore I am" is kind of a lame excuse for me. I know I am real because I feel and I hurt. I know I am real because I bleed. I know the trees are real because I can touch them. I know the rain is real because I can smell it and taste it. I know laughter is real because I can hear it. I suppose that when it comes right down to it, there really is no way of knowing what "reality" is, but whatever we consider to be real is certainly amazing.
2007-01-15 12:00:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i asked myself the same thing and the only answer i can come up with is " if there was no reality then what are we, since we are here and dont know y we should jus live life to da fullest with out holding back, we only live once"
2007-01-15 11:56:51 · answer #9 · answered by Mohammed H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allow me to punch you in the nose, then tell me whether or not my fist is real.
Nothing personal--that's just my stock response to that sort of question, boiling down all of the analysis into a simple but effective analogy.
2007-01-15 14:38:06 · answer #10 · answered by x 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
according to some physicists there is no proof of anything at all outside of the "observer".
then i wonder, in order to come to this conclusion one had to observe the "observer", at that moment who does said "reality" belong to? is it the chicken or the egg? ,, or i suppose just what ive often thought, we imagine each other simultaneously.
2007-01-15 12:27:55 · answer #11 · answered by nodumgys 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋