do you agree with this statement? read details.?

Question

"Man's consciousness not only reflect the objective world, but creates it" (V.I.Lenin, collected works vol 38 p 212)

Answer 1

No, I don't agree with it. When we are conscious, we are aware of the world around us, but the world is there whether we are aware of it or not. Man's consciousness does NOT create the world.

Answer 2

according to present scientific research, our brain does not perceive the world the way we believe it does. you could say that a picture or impression of the world is created inside the brain, no matter if that picture is real or not.

there is a phenomenon called change blindness. it shows that people are not able to notice an obvious change in a picture, when vision is "interrupted" for example by a flash on the screen. even two changing actors in a movie, who play the same role, have been recognized only by few test candidates.
apart from that, sometimes patients with a brain damage that paralyzed half of their bodies, will not notice a watch on their paralyzed arm ("What time is it?") or even neglect that this arm is theirs.
so consciousness creates its own reality.

on the other hand, the physical world is also created in an evolutionary sense.
we developed consciousness through natural selection, and with the help of consciousness we became advanced enough to engineer ever more complex tools for survival, and thus created the world we live in.

altogether, that statement must be true in both cases. and there is no question about whether humans are able to reflect (although some don't seem to like using that ability). but actually, I have no idea what Lenin meant....

Answer 3

This is a philosophical question that has been debated for centuries. It really boils down to this:

Is everything that I experience through my senses real, in the sense that they are distinct from my sensory perceptions, or are they created by my senses?

Arguments for the former would say that this are real in themselves (realism). Our senses are conveying us accurate information since other people are communicating to us that they are experiencing the same. If not, it would mean that nothing we detect through our five sense is real, everything about our world is an illusion.

Arguments for the latter say that sensory perception creates everything in our brains, and nothing can be known as real in and of itself (idealism). We have no way of verifying anything since all of our knowledge of the world comes from our senses, and our senses could be lying to us or be wrong.

This grand philosophical question has been pondered by Westerners such as Bertrand Russell and Rene Descartes, classicists such as Socrates and Aristotle, and Eastern philosophers such as the Hindu Vedantic philosophers.

Personally, I am a realist since I personally found no persuasive argument, logically or otherwise, that everything is an illusion or that we are all brains-in-vats.

Answer 4

I disagree. God creates it. Man's eyes see it and his conciousness awakes to it. God inspires us all.

May God bless you.