do we live in a fixed reality or do we create reality as we go?

Answer 1

FIXED reality. My God, I just wrote a whole philosophical essay on absolute truth and reality. I can send it to you as an e-mail attachment if you like. I got an A on it. It's pretty good.



Second paragraph of paper:

According to Aristotle, "philosophy should be called knowledge of truth" (Aristotle - Metaphysics, Book II).” Reality is not subjective, nor is truth. How an individual perceives reality can be subjective, but there exists in the universe absolute reality and truth that all people desire, consciously or subconsciously. The truth is. If God is, then He is truth. If absolute truth exists, then so too must absolute justice and peace exist. Because if it is true that we desire truth and knowledge, so too must we desire absolute justice and peace, because both justice and peace require truth. Reality will be defined as what exists in the universe. Truth will be defined as the authenticity of nature and the universe and how an individual comes to predicate that authenticity. An individual seeking truth may fail several times. However, according to Aristotle "All men by nature desire to know (Aristotle - Metaphysics, Book I).” If we desire to know, then we can say we desire to know the truth. For no person desires to perceive a falsehood as the truth, unless perversion has overcome him or her.

Answer 2

Reality is something that is created as we go, and no two people experience the same reality, even if it is for the same real event.

Let me explain this way:
I have a friend whose parents kicked him out of the house on New Years Day of 1990. They locked the doors, refused to let him in, and threw out a garbage bag filled with his clothes and some of his belongings. He was "disowned" from his family for 12 years, and the first time he saw the family was at a relatives funeral. When he spoke to his parents, they said that they have missed him since he "decided to move out". The same event was experienced by both parties involved, however one saw it as "being kicked out" and it affected him negatively. The other parties involved saw it as him "leaving home", and it did not have the same effects on them.

Each and every event that we experience in life shapes our sense of reality, and is does not have the same effect, no matter how similar the experience.

Each and every event in our life shapes a part of us. Our reactions to events in our lives are what determines whether or not we have negative or positive outcomes to those events.

If we lived in a fixed reality, then it would be easy to determine the reactions and effects that different people have.

So the bottom line for me is that we create our own reality as we go along in life, and that sense of reality and how we react to it can have positive or adverse effects. The choice is ultimately up to us.

Answer 3

as individuals we can create a certain amount of our own reality. I think a thing called "power" is what makes some of us live in a fixed reality generated by someone else who themselves are in a created reality. Who's pulling YOUR strings? Hahahahaha!

Answer 4

Every one lives different, no one has the same reality, every head is a different world so I believe we create our own reality as we go whether it is fixed or not depends on an individual perception.

Answer 5

FICTION OR NONFICTION---reality is the most furthest things,of a set 100% deal and you cant bet upon this unlike las-vegas from your very first breath your person is real and yet young and new at the game of life --- that will be in balance of reality ...A very good qu . in reality if i loose a dollar that i need u pick it up and u no its mine you buy a coke drink it in front of me unk that i miss my bus and got too walt home and if w/ in a hour u take the buss later and pass me up in the rain iam soaked ,broke -u on the othe hand r dry got money -- do you feel bad HUGH ???? slightly ill bet so i didnt see you so ud proob blow it off and forget abt it till later when you yourseilf lose something a buck and get it back from someone thats reality ,but hows you conctioun feeling THATS REAL AND ITS REALITY ....but the reality of it is its ME GIVING YOU BACK YOUR BUS MONEY AND ITS RAINNING ........ there catch 22 ...GOOD LUCK AND HAVE A GOOD ONE later ROC-WLA

Answer 6

Because no two people experience the same 'reality', reality must be 'created' as we go.

Answer 7

Reality is always going to be reality, people just perceive it differently.

Answer 8

We create reality.Learn as you go.Except your mountains and turn them into mole hills. Surround yourself with giants and become bigger yourself.

Fixed realities is for the weak at heart.

Answer 9

both we exist in an interactive universe where we have free Will and control and create some things and the intervening universe throws us circumstances, luck, or hardship

Answer 10

I think sort of both , cool question!