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Reality IS what is perceived, not how it is explained.
LenHazell53
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June 21, 2021
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Reality is defined as “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.” If my mind has been altered by psychotropics or alcohol even, inducing synesthesia or hallucinations, my perception of reality is distorted. Reality does not require an observer, whether drunk or sober, in order to exist.
@p-nullifidian I am referring to existential reality, practical reality and experienced reality.
Largely objective reality is for the most part utterly irrelevant to the lived experience.
Yes I know that in "reality" the sun is a huge nuclear fission reactor floating in space, but even if I did not know that I would know the sun is hot, helps grow crops and will blind me if I look straight in to it for too long.
Both statements are statements of reality, one matters to my life the other does not
illustrating my point reality is what is perceived, not how it is explained.
@LenHazell53 Subjective (or squishy) reality is fine with me so long as our subjective observations can be normalized. For example, what we call blue should excite receptors in our ocular-neural system that correspond to 450 to 495 nm.
That the sun is hot, helps us with our crops and blinds us if we look at it too long is not an individual reality that matters to our individual lives, rather it is a collective or shared reality. And if an entire species can experience the same reality with regard to our star, might the same reality be experienced by other sentient or nonsentient entities?
In other words, reality is the common ground between what is perceived and how it may be explained.
How very silly.
Our perceived world is a model constructed by our brains, based on information they receive from our senses, why would there ever have been any reason to suppose that that it was ever anything but a model ?
The model may be an accurate representation, of certain things, especially things having qualities, such as a certain size and temperature ranges, which makes them liable to affect the survival of an African ape. But no one would ever have reason to suppose that the model was ever anything but a representation and one of limited scope, or conversely that a representation is not itself a part of reality. Which is actually all rather wonderful.
Fernapple
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June 21, 2021
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Would a slap to your face be a model constructed by your brain?
A la @LenHazell53 Making your explanation short would help.
@yvilletom Yes a slap to the face is a model constructed in the brain. Pain is no less a mental construct than anything else. You can not feel anything if your brain is put to sleep with anesthetics, but you are perfectly capable of feeling a ghost pain in you leg, like syatica, even when the real injury is to your back.
I am sorry you found my post a little long winded, Lenhazell53 does put much the same thing far more succinctly, but then he is very smart. If mine was a little long, perhaps it would have been smart on your part to stop reading before the end.
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