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Author Topic:   Reality is not based upon our perception.
ikabod
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Message 6 of 37 (345970)
09-02-2006 5:39 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Christian7
09-01-2006 9:09 PM


i would agree reality is absolute , it is what is there , and it does not require anything to perceve it , interact with it for its existance .
the problem comes when we try to define what is there , we then encounter the problem of our perception systems , which have too many inbuilt filters and dislocators ... we are not equiped to map reality to its absolute-ness

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ikabod
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Message 12 of 37 (346174)
09-03-2006 4:32 AM
Reply to: Message 11 by ReverendDG
09-02-2006 11:50 PM


what you mean isn't reality, but the physical nature of the universe, which isn't really the samething. we call the physical world reality since it is reality to us, but blind people might consider the dark reality or the guy that thinks his dilusions are real
your words could be taken to imply that reality has to be percived in some manner ... this would imply no perception = no reality .... does this mean you would accept no life , thus no perception , thus no reality .. ie the universe did not exsits as part of reality until some life form first perceved it .. which begs the question how basic can this perception be , bacterial ?? a tree , a sheep , a chimp , a human ....
is this the case ??

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