THERE IS NO REALITY, ONLY PERCEPTION...agree or disagree?

Question

Do you agree or disagree? Support your stand.

Answer 1

I agree. For example, what we perceive as yellow is really just a certain wavelength of light which our eyes (cones & rods) read, turn into a chemical signal and show our brain a picture of a "color". We only call it yellow because it's yellow. And then there's time. Does it really exist? What if time was just a way for the brain to keep everything from happening at once, because our brains couldn't handle it. Furthermore, time is subjective. How can one day spent doing nothing drag on forever, but a day spent doing fun things fly by. Did time really slow down? Sure you could say it was time seemed to go by fast because you were having fun, but this just shows that PERCEPTION can be decieving. So how can we trust any of it. If this interests you, right now I'm reading A Beginner's Guide To Reality by Jim Baggot (really good, FYI, lots of pop culture references.)

Answer 2

Having perception presupposes something is there to perceive. Of course there is a reality and I am really writing this and you are really reading this, regardless of what is taught these days in institutions of "higher" learning. That there is no reality is a bunch of tripe that is fed to people in order to control them. As a test to those who say reality doesn't exist, may I suggest you stand in the middle of the highway and watch an oncoming truck come barreling its way toward you. Would you move out of its way?

Answer 3

When a person believes that there is no reality he/she is also saying that he/she does not exist at all. For that I beg to disagree because I am firmly convinced that my existence does not depend on any body's perception. I exist as I really am even if nobody perceives me. Descartes who was or is still one of the famous skeptics said: Cogito ergo sum! (I think therefore I exist).

Answer 4

I would have to disagree. Perception relies one something to perceive. If there is nothing to perceive then we have no perception. Now if the question is there is reality but can't we perceive it then I would have to agree since we all see the world from our own little corner of it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

That sounds like some kind of twisted trap that is used to sucker people into considering a completely bogus proposition. There is no reality....so there is no suffering.....and there is no good or evil.......and so we don't really exist, why don't you just send me a check for $10,000 so I can publish a magazine and spread the word that there is no reality. No reality in the church, no reality outside of the church, no reality on TV, no reality in the physical world. It is all a dream. Well dream on.

Answer 6

I disagree. I am not conscious of my being asleep, but it does happen. When I broke my legs, it was reality. It was not just a mental perception that I couldn't walk.

Answer 7

"Existence exists—and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: that something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness being the faculty of perceiving that which exists.

"If nothing exists, there can be no consciousness: a consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms. A consciousness conscious of nothing but itself is a contradiction in terms: before it could identify itself as consciousness, it had to be conscious of something. If that which you claim to perceive does not exist, what you possess is not consciousness.

"Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end. Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it."

Answer 8

I believe the reality is relative in the majority of the cases them I agree.

Is the glass of water semi-full or semi-empty?

Answer 9

There are both. We may only have access to our own perceptions, but what is out there really is out there, hence reality.

Answer 10

oh my gosh, i totally and completely agree with 'life illuminates' answer.... i always think of things like that!!! i dont have an answer to give but i jus need to comment on the fact that this is an interesting question you asked.