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LDB449
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LDB449 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

What is reality with respect man God and what we see and hear?

Is what we see real?

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  • Yo Guh
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    1 decade ago
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    WHAT? What is this asking? All I know is that as humans our phenomenal experiences and our perception of the external world are lacking. Our recall is not as good as we think so often when we reflect back on our experiences they are skewed and we don't remember them right. That doesn't mean that our senses aren't keen enough for us to learn and thrive it just means that things could be different from the way we understand them to be. Like colors could be different to everybody but we were just taught them all by a name. My "purple" could be your "blue" but we would never know it because we both learned it as yellow and I will never see through your physical eyes. (Nothing to do with colorblindness)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Reality seems to be a projection. It is as real as any projection can be.

    This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual structure of an atom and the scale and placement of its components. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons and protons form a dense cluster at the center of the atom and that the electrons orbit in such a way that huge spaces exist between them and the nucleus it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space at any given moment.

    This alone does not seem too important until you add the idea that the atoms that make up many seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

    At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that could be thought of as 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that may not be the seemingly solid objects they appear to us to be.

    We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

    These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

    From this one could conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turns them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

    I want to add that this is based on my own personal way of looking at the situation and was never intended to be a physics lesson.

    Love and blessings Don

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What we see and hear is what our conscience tells us and it is all depended on the way our body is constructed.

    For example death simply means losing consciousness (in scientific terms your organs stop working) and sleeping means the ruling of the subconscious.

    The things we see depend on the messages sent from our brains to our body. For example we may see a red apple however other animals may see it as blue because they are colour blind.

    Source(s): a lot of thinking and research
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