Is reality confined to what is in principle perceptible to the senses?

Answer 1

Yes. That is why when one is said to have a "6th sense", they can perceive what most can't through their conventional 5 senses.

Answer 2

Reality cannot even be defined, much less confined.
Our senses & perceptions create a subjective reality.

Answer 3

(IMO)
For you it is, yes. Others would posit an objective reality.
There are a few phenomena that might be classified as, if not objective, then suitable mass subjective as to make no difference; maths, logic, reasoning.....
On the other hand, if you look at religion then reality can be that which is unpercieved, namely God. Faith, hope, and anticipatory feeling are all not based on external perception.
On the other hand, if you read Sartre he posits an ultimate innner perceptory core, upon which even our base thoughts and emotions are overlaid. By this theory, even our self awareness is imposed upon our all beholding inner spark of pure observance.

The problem with this is that it is hard to tell at exactly what stage our perceptions merge with our consciousness, or even if our consciousness itself is an illusory perception.
The long answer you just saw, the short answer is probably yes. We have no awareness ourside perception, and nor can we prove any exists. Even other people exist purely within our perceptual framework.

Answer 4

Einstein at a young age was staring at a door and asked...does the world exist out there? how do i know it does?

In my room right now, i know what is real here...and though i know my best friend right now is asleep. . .how do i know? Reality is what you know, and that is always limited.
when you hear something wrong, but you haven't noticed yet. . .whats real to you>?
you just saw someone turn the corner. . .or did you>?

We mix up things all the time~so our senses are limited on accuracy......so for a single person, your answer is yes...everyone lives in their own reality...the bigger picture is no.


"reality, its the that infinitely thin amount of time, between the past and the future." thats what i say....

Answer 5

no, what we perceive is actually a view from the influence of science. in science, it confines our reality, our views, our knowledge to what we call our senses. we are imprisoned by our own common sense, from traditional and customary beliefs of our time and place, and by our convictions which we never reasoned but was only fed to us without our questioning. through this, our world becomes finite and definite. unfamiliar possibilities are rejected and thus confining us to our own senses.

our reality has infinite possibilities just as the world is infinite. though we may not have definite answers to our questions, we free and expand our thoughts from the traditional or customary. it expands our reality as to what they may be not as to what they are.

Answer 6

The only confines to reality are what WE put on it.

Answer 7

Cant give you a definitive answer, not sure of my own reality at moment!, alcohol clowded judgement!, but thats a great question, but, on reflection, the answer has to be no, imperceivable actions are still real, wether we see the action, or just the result..

Answer 8

Yes, because reality mainly is something that can be proved. But there are certain things such as religions that people considered as reality although never really having any proof but they claim that they "feel" it.

Answer 9

i would say yes, each persons reality is what they perceive, what they sense it to be, but you shouldnt limit the senses to the basic 5, instinct, intuition, what the spirit senses, and other extra senses are also at work

Answer 10

I suspect so.

In any case things that have no influence on the world of our perception have no relevance to us, because they can't influence us in any way.

Answer 11

Sure, ther are no mircowaves, just the sound coming out of your iphone.
There are no cosmic rays because you can't feel them.