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Author Topic:   Reality is not based upon our perception.
sidelined
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Message 37 of 37 (349113)
09-14-2006 6:08 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Christian7
09-01-2006 9:09 PM


Guido Ariba
In this post I would like to propose the idea that reality is absolute, that no matter how our consciousness percieves it, it is as it is.
Our only information of the world around us ,personally, is of the senses we posses or the instruments we use that enhance those perceptions , or the mathematics that hints at far more subtle structure but I agree that the universe is "out there" beyond our skulls.
But there are drawbacks to this assertion. When we say that something is out there in what way are we meaning this? Are we going by the sensory approach in such a way that if we doubt what we see we confirm by the use of the sense of touch? Does this make it more real or less, since we never really touch matter at all but only the field effect of matter.
It is one thing to state that "it is what it is', yet quite another to define what that "is" entails.
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