[voidray]

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."

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Is reality perception? Or is there any certain reality?

Originally Posted by voidray

Is reality perception? Or is there any certain reality?

Of course our perception of reality is flawed. I'd give that whole Allegory of the Cave spiel (on which The Matrix is based), but honestly, I never agreed with Plato's proposal of finding Truth in the World of Forms. I was actually more fond of Aristotilianism in that regard, despite the fact that the Church supported such philosophy and tried to kill or exile anyone who'd disagree.

Is reality perception? Or is there a certain reality?

I beleive reality is a treasure only the nature on Earth holds. If one can support oneself in harmony with ones surroundings, reality becomes real. It isn't fixed. It isn't always changing either, at least in the term of a human life. It can never be described, it needs to be experienced. They path to it is unique for each human or not. It controls us, not the other way around.

Just my thought.

[CgRgSm]

To me, nothing is real. I'm afraid I'm with Rene Descartes, I have doubted everything I thought I knew to be true, but once I did, I found that all I can truly know without a doubt in my mind is that I exist. Does that mean that I am really here on Earth and my being is this very human form in which I can taste, feel, smell, see, and hear? No, I could be in another dimension being fed data streams through a computer telling me what I am perceiving to be true, just like in the Matrix. I just cannot prove anything. I am not in control of my self, there are many things controlling me, such as my physical body, my personality, things that happen trigger chemicals in my brain, and other people.

[voidray]

Please wait. Let's take a schizophrenic person as an example. They can see, taste, feel, smell, or hear things that do not actually exist. OR, this a big "OR", they are misdiagnosed?

[CgRgSm]

I think every "diagnosis" is a misdiagnosis. There are so many things that humans don't know, but they think they know. Not everyone fits into the same bracket as others, and there are always other factors.

[gma45]

This post has got me thinking which is scary or so people say lol! Things that happen trigger chemicals in the brain which in turn set the stage for electrical signals in the brain to process what is real to us. Maybe everyone's brain chemicals are the same just the way they are combined makes us see different realities. Just my UN-educated guess.