do you beleive that things exists independently from your perceptions??

Question

why or why not?

and what is your proof that things do exist independently from yourself?

if there isnt an objective reality then what is causing our experiences?

Answer 1

Good question. Immanuel Kant, the great 19th century Enlightenment philosopher showed that we cannot really be sure of the existence of anything outside our own perceptions.

Answer 2

OK let me smack you in the head now.
Did you do that?

However things do not exist independently either, all things are one thing, the universe.
note This is duality of truth, absolute and reletive. They are complimentry, not contradictory

Your perceptions are based on a concept of self, but where can you find this self? Under the hypothalamus? Behind the medulla oblongata? I see nuerons and synapses, electrons firing off, but no you. Why?
Maybe the "you" you think is you doesn't exist? Maybe it's a delusion to help a weak mind to deal with the world around them without having to spend time really cutting to the heart of the matter? Namaste

Answer 3

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual scale of the components of an atom. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons, protons and electrons of an atom actually have huge spaces between them it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space.

This alone does not seem too important till you add the idea that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that are 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that they can in no way be the seemingly solid objects they appear to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this we must conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turn them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I hope that helps to answered your question.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 4

I believe there exists an independant reality outside of subjective perceptions but every self-aware being sees the world through the veil of their own ignorance and experience and therefore necessarily perceives external reality differently from every other self-aware being.

Answer 5

Of course they do...My perceptions are totally subjective...Every person sees the world through his/her own eyes, using his/her own mind...so things are independently existing...we can only try to change these things...

Answer 6

Yes !
Because the characteristics of the mind is that it can be focused only at one thing at a time. and it requires more than one sense organ to confirm the thing.

the proof is that as the time passes it revels the other thing which was not perceived in the previous duration of time.

Answer 7

No. I perceive everything through my senses. There is no independent source through which I filter reality, so nothing is independent of my percpetions. That neither disproves or proves whether or not they exist seperately from me though.

Answer 8

no
nothing exists independent of myself
the question is who is this self?
because no self exists independent of the world either!

Answer 9

no, because we are all existing because of inter-relations with
living things and non-living things