Are you in touch with REALITY?

Question

And do you know what reality is?

Answer 1

To a functional first approximation, it appears so.

I can drive to the supermarket at my local town, buy food and come back.
Formally, I might have trouble proving the existence of the town, the car, roads...
And linguistically, many of the words I'd use in the attempt would be slightly fuzzy at the edges.
One person's concept of the town would not exactly correspond to another's. Though we'd usually be able to communicate (with a small risk of confusion).

But for almost everything "it does", and that it works is a fair case that these concepts are reasonably connected to reality.

Now, down in the detail, yes, there it gets tricky.
The interaction of a tyre with the road at a quantum level...
... is in one sense more real than some loose approximation called "grip", but in another sense is something you really shouldn't be thinking deeply and accurately about when driving.
A vague and horribly rough rule about bends, speeds and wet roads is a more useful take on reality, for survival purposes.

Answer 2

Most of metaphysics (and a good deal of epistemology) is bunk. When someone asks me how I know the chair I'm sitting in is real and then they act like they've just said something profound and mind-blowing I just want to slap them upside the face.

No, we can't know anything 100% and so anything is possible, but to simply say anything is possible is to say exactly nothing. It's white noise. As sane people, we judge things on probability instead of just possibility. Anything is possible, but how likely or unlikely is it? If you judge everything on possibility it makes it seem as though everything has a 50/50 chance of being true or false when that isn't the case. For example, the chance that the Sun will not rise tomorrow is immensely small.

Use David Hume argument against miracles to solve these kinds of things: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless it be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it seeks to establish." Something like the chair thing I mentioned later would fall under Hume's category of things that would be more miraculous if they were false.

Epistemic Matrix-inspired relativism is BS.

Answer 3

We mostly think of reality as what's going on in our lives, and in the world. but I think true reality is everything outside of our planet. It's so large, it's real, and we don't know everything about.

Answer 4

Reality is subjective until we get to know our true self. I don't think I am in touch with reality yet but I am working toward it.
Many Blessings

Answer 5

Reality is a state of mind

Answer 6

Nope I stay in an entire dream international an if fact infiltrates i'm getting quite disturbed by way of it! My international is lots greater secure i think of, nicely in all threat no longer mentally yet a minimum of I neglect approximately undesirable bits of "genuine existence" by way of being in my bubble!

Answer 7

Can anybody truly prove that what they're experiencing is "real"? Reality is subjective.

Answer 8

yes i do

Answer 9

I wish.

Answer 10

you better believe it!