do you beleive that there is an objective reality outside of our perceptions??

Question

of course everything is subjective to the way we perceive things. but do you think that everything is an illusion and nothing exists outside of yourself?? or is everything you have ever known and loved a prodct of your mind?? or do we in fact live in an objective reality in which we base our subjective perceptions on??

Answer 1

Yes. It's all on TV and on the internet.

Answer 2

All is perception. You, me and 6 other people can stand at a round table in an empty room with only a bottle of red wine on the table, and the bright light of the sun shinning through the window, hitting the glass bottle. I am directly across from the bottle and the wine and bottle all of a sudden appear to be very light in color, indeed I mistake it for white wine in a clear bottle. You however, are standing behind the bottle, just a bit to the left of the sunlight, and the bottle clearly is dark green with red wine, each of the other 6 people at different points see a different bottle and color, perception of each is truly their own concept....and for a moment their belief.

Perception is the reality that we live in, but we as humans living on the same planet at the same time have a shared concept of what should be, so any perception that we might mis-interrupt, is corrected by the commonality of our situation at the moment.

It is believe that we have developed the entire existence including the universe from our own thoughts, forming even the solid matter in which we more and support our being. However, even this is a perception that can be challenged as then one must travel the course to where is the original thought of our creation.

That is another question....

Answer 3

Hi, let me introduce you to my friend Mr. Kant. He's thought about this problem at some length, and his solution is quite a complex one, which you can discover for yourself in his book 'Critique of Pure Reason'.

In the meantime, I can provide a very inadequate summary of his conclusions (I provide it because I personally find them persuasive):

It seems somewhat unlikely that 'objective reality' does not exist at all, for how else would we ever agree on anything? However, the fact that we don't always agree about absolutely everything points to the subjective component of our perception of reality.

Kant suggests that we have certain 'innate' or 'inborn' or whatever-you-want-to-call-them conceptions of reality (he called them 'a priori'), which we're all born with, and which are in and of themselves part of the way we perceive reality. For example, we all perceive that there is such a thing as time, and that it passes; we can't imagine perceiving reality without things changing over time.

The problem with the idea that there is no reality outside our perception of it - which was, I think, most famously suggested by an Irish philosopher, George Berkeley (waving a small flag here as I am myself Irish) is that although it obviously has to be untrue, it's nearly impossible to refute. It appeals to the demon of total scepticism in all of us. I can only assure you that I am not a figment of your imagination, any more than you are a figment of mine.

The interesting thing about total scepticism, which is what you're proposing, is that even if you accept it as a doctrine, it does very little for you. The major ethical questions still remain; how are you to relate to the figments of your imagination that appear to be people? Not to mention the epistemological questions: if everything is an illusion, is it also an illusion that everything is an illusion?

Good luck working these out.

Answer 4

The Upanishads say that Almighty has created Sakti (primordial
energy) and gave her the task of creation. The other meanings
of the word Sakti is Maya (illusion or darkness). It is true that
some philosophers called the world an illusion. It is only when
the person awakens from the spiritual sleep caused by illusion
(or darkness), he will see the light of higher knowledge.

Almighty is eternal. Almighty is Omnipotent. Almighty
is infinite. Almighty is real. Human perceptions have
limitations. How can the creation designed by Almighty
be an illusion?

Answer 5

You know, someone else was seeking clarification on the cave allegory, and I see a connection here...

I do think that our individual perceptions are illusions, but the illusion is just the reality translated into conceivable form. We are limited as human beings, we are not wired to, meant to, or able to get the whole of reality.

But the trade-off is a beautiful illusion, and the medium through which we get to create and fulfill the purpose of each life.

Everything you have ever known and loved has been filtered through your mind, but is not a product thereof.

We each get to understand one tiny part of the whole.

(I think that we are supposed to listen to each other. Imagine if everyone in the world could pool their knowledge and we could all know what every other human knows, without judging or arguing or killing each other... maybe then we could begin to conceive of "reality.")

Answer 6

certain, the international does exist objectively outside our perceptions yet using cultural and societal constraints, our perceptions are very foggy. some people stay of their personal little worlds; they see the international through a spread of 'prefabricated cost template' in which subjective values are absolute. quite, people have lost their ability, or quite their willingness to diverge from the 'herd-mentality'; the subjective realm, and enter into an purpose realm, perceiving and interpreting, and, maximum critically, comparing. All sentient beings ought to stay with some subjective idea of the universe in the different case we can grow to be nihilists. the problem lies in the reality that, the position there grow to be once human being interpretations of the international, persons began clumping mutually into herds and delivered their suggestions of the universe with them. those suggestions, like elements in a boiling pot, morphed and mutated into consensual reviews shared through quite anybody in the herd. to question such absoluteness grow to be to commit heresy. Society is at the moment at a snapping aspect the position its empirically purpose 'technology' is disproving all this subjectiveness. in the top, society will come across a majority of those stupid topics thoroughly preposterous and could initiate shedding all subjective values. This, regrettably is nihilism. What would want to be understood is that categorical progression of how we see, listen, style, scent and experience the international is a few thing it is way more beneficial pleasing in our lives than meekly keep on with the values of yet another, or worse, ascribing to no values in any respect.

Answer 7

We can never know! Because we need our subjective perception to define what an objective reality is, so without subjective perception there can be no possibility of an objective reality.

Answer 8

No smoke without fire..... and there is such a lot of and variety of smokes all around..... if it is just subjective perceptions, how do perceptions by different people so logically match?
There ought to be quite a lot of objective reality and our subjective outlook or viewpoint or experience can not change that.

Answer 9

In this universe we live in as far as scale, we are as ants or less if the comparison is earth versus ant.

Do you think that there is an other reality than the one the ants experience in their world. Does an ant even conceive that it might be walking on a person?

To think that our perceived reality is it is to be blind to the universe at large.

Answer 10

The term "objective" means intersubjectively verifiable. By defintion, nothing is objective that is outside of our perception.

Something instatiates my experience. That is the "thing in itself", though I can only know how it is represented within my awareness.

That "thing in itself" is real (it has an effect) , and it's reality is not determined by our perception.

Answer 11

You sound like you'd be interested in the Greek philosopher Plato's work called The Allegory of the Cave. It describes how people have false perceptions of the world through their senses. When they become true philosophers, everything is clearer to them. I recommend you read it, it's insightful.