Your reality is what you make it, but sadly we live in a world where peoples realities are programmed and misleading
My reality affects my view and we all have differing 'realities'.
@Abigail96 Yes, in the middle. Stuck in the middle. Stuck in the middle with you.
Reality affects my view of the world.
It's the only view I'm capable of interacting with.
Human beings are gifted at cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias. It is really difficult to believe any of us have a complete hold on reality. I follow science and I believe that evidence is the key to finding truth. But I admit as anyone should, that I manipulate the evidence to mold my world view. We all are guilty. To get as close to reality as possible we should surround ourselves with those people who might take us out of comfort zones. Debating topics is as close as we can get to reality. Unfortunately most of us are bad at doing that. I like many of my fellow atheists condemn right wing Christians for living in a protective bubble, but really all of us who live in bubbles should not be throwing stones.
An interesting and mind bogglingly complex view of the universe. I tend to view the universe anthropically , that is the universe requires an observer, to quote Descartes: "Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum." (I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am). In my mind, it is arrogant of humans to think they are the only observers. Trees stretch their green leaves to the sun, because they 'know' the sun is there. Under a microscope, poke an amoeba and it will move away. If the universe is contingent/reliant upon such a myriad of life forms then the reality of the universe is fleeting and for a specific observer even change based on the observer's fickle changes in perspective.
Your question is a contrived one. We interact with the physical world and use those interactions to construct cognitive patterns and maps. We also derive schema or tactics for interacting with our world. But, many things intervene in those interactions -- chemical imbalances in our own bodies, cultural norms and beliefs which we have internalized, our past experiences, the patterns of meaning we have already constructed. the effectiveness of our cognitive schema, etc. Of course reality affects us, but our perception of that reality is never entirely truly accurate.
I can’t really answer this as it is asked. No one experiences the world in the same way I do. For example, no one else is currently experiencing the view from my chair. But the view from my chair is not a separate reality. My living room, house, street, etc., exists even if you never experience it. Reality is the set of all things real.
I think you may be using “reality” in a poetic or rhetorical sense that we can never share the exact same experiences. Our world views are shaped by our experiences: our education, the things we read, the people we spend time with, etc. All of those influences are real, and everyone’s world views are different.
It seems reasonable to suppose a range of subjectivity/objectivity informing our awareness. Experiencing a 2x4 upside the head is pretty damn objective and a couple a glasses of wine and a few of Chopin's Nocturnes much more subjective. To reduce all experience to one category or the other seems simplistic and missing out on all kinds of fun.
Nice. Thanks for that!