What is real?

Question

☼What makes the universe real. Because we see?
☼The universe we see, are images place inside us?
☼The real us are the souls, but the universe is all but images that are placed inside us to see what we see now? ☼What do you think?☼I will be glad to hear your opinions.

Sometimes I just think too much and I dont like it.

Finaly I found a one realy nice answer.
Thank you.

Answer 1

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 2

The "universe" is real because we exist, regardless of whether we physically "see" it or not. After all, the universe is not ANY LESS REAL for a blind person than it is for you or me... or is it?

Images are not "placed" inside us, but attitudes and opinions, etc... ARE and they "color" the way we perceive the world around us and, consequently, the universe. Beliefs, those we are taught by our family as children and those we may adopt as adults on our own, also have an impact.

I'm afraid I don't believe in the idea of the soul, per se, since I don't believe in an afterlife or in the concept of a divine power, which your question seems to presuppose...

For example, picture the universe as a beautiful garden. For some people it is enough to appreciate that the garden is very beautiful... for others, they have to or want to believe that green faeries live underneath it? (Forgive the simplicity of this example but I think it gets the point across.)

Answer 3

There is no harm in thinking too much dear friend. I have often thought the same myself. I would say the universe that we see is possibly not real. That God made it i have no doubt but whos to say he did not create an illussion. I think you are right about souls with images placed inside us but He probably did it all with some mathematical equation and took it from there. We existt in theory but there is no reality. How could anything be real with all this sufferring around us and within us.

Answer 4

Atoms change their behavior when you look at them, when you observe them. When you have your back to a basketball court, and there's one basketball on the court, the basketball is all over the court at the same time, but when you turn around and look, it's only at one spot. Everything we see is only that way because we see it. The whole universe might exist only because we're here to see it. Hence there's nothing real, only our consciousness. Even we're not real, our body, our mind, because that's all part of the universe.

Getting stabbed with a fork is not real either, because your body is not real, nor is the fork, nor is the stabbing. But that's okay. You think using your brain, which is not real either, so anything that you think will seem real, because there's no way something unreal to perceive something real. Get it?

Answer 5

The only thing that makes the universe real is our 5 senses and our perception of seeing, tasting, touching or feeling, hearing and smelling. We perceive the world through these but our senses are also fallible. We often interpret things via our senses in different ways and therefore our interpretation of the universe is flexible.

Answer 6

Getting stabbed in the hand by a fork is real.

Your philosophy would not survive the "fork test," I'm afraid. If, while you were expounding your intricate theories on seeing, reality, and the soul, I were to stab you in the hand, you would assuredly instantly forget all about your theories, and demand in a highly audible voice to know why I had stabbed your very real hand with a very real fork.

I find the "fork test" is useful for cutting through a lot of the BS.

Answer 7

as someone quoted from descartes i think therefore i am. However the quote is actually i doubt therefore i am. This may seem picky (it might be) but thinking can be replicated primiatively at the moment however doubt can not. It is this doubt that shows that there is at least some for of myself which is able to doubt. My apperance (or the world around me) may be simply an image i am imagining.

Answer 8

Does it matter what's real?

You have two options here.

You can believe that the universe is real, in which case you do your best to be happy in it.

Or you can believe none of it is real, but that has not changed the reality of your being. You still think, act and feel, regardless of what else is real. As long as you are, then you have to act. So even if nothing is real, it's best we accept it and proceed with life as we normally would.

And yes, you think too much.

Answer 9

Real is perception, if your brain perceives something then that is something real, even the thought. We are stuck inside bodies in possibly a enormous hallucination called life. Well maybe we never wake up from the hallucination, but that is real in and of itself. "I think therefore I am" Cogito ergo sum, is commonly used to show that you exist ;).

Answer 10

The universe is real because nothing says it isn't. We see it, feel it, taste it, smell it, hear it, and sense it. We can contemplate it, therefore it exists. Truly, without deceit, certain, and most veritable.