what is the equivalent of reality?
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Reality equals experiences and truth.
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Remember the chicken discussion in The Maxtrix.  I liked that explanation.\n\nWhat is reality? It is something we feel, smell, taste, see, or hear?  But then again, all these sensations are electrical impulses that is relayed to our brain and our brain interpret those impulses.  If that is true then something that is real is really our interpretation of impulses.  \n\nLet me ask, if a person with schizophrenia is hallucinating about a flower pot in front of him and everyone else around him doesn't see it.  Does that mean its not real.  It may not be real to everyone else but it is very really to that schizophrenic person.  \n\nWhich brings me to my next point.  I think reality is based on consensual and shared interpretations.  If 100 people can agree that a red table is a red table then its a red table.  well then again if you were color blind you wouldn't see red :).  Now lets say another alien species which could see infrared saw that table.  Our interpretation and the alien's interpretation of color would be very different.  Lets take another example: a photograph.  To most people a photograph can be easily identified.  However, to a tribe in Borereo the photograph may represent a captured soul.  In this instance culture definitely affects our interpretation of reality.\n\nSo to define what a real object is not very easy or even possible to do.\n\nI also thought it was funny to describe the fourth dimension as time in defining an object.  I mean what exactly does that mean.  My table or photograph ain't got a clock on it last time i checked
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If a tree falls in the woods, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a noise?\n\nIt doesn't matter.\n\nTHAT is existential reality.
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nothing exsits if there is nothing there to see/hear/feel it.  Everything that is reality and what we think is real, is just a representation of what information from our senses, our brain processes them into being.  There is no real reality its just our own reality in our heads that we think is real.
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well, as soon as you realized you're right here in Earth, taking in breathe and fulfilling your mission to accomplish with "imaginarysociety", there you go!!! Reality exists! If not, then images in that website wont exist! LOL!!!!!!! Nice way of ad, though!!!!
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Any religion you make to be true will of course be true.  What is truth?
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is this the real world?
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Well that's a good question.  I think so!  There are many things that are real, we don't have to always understand how it works for it to be real!
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A level of reality other than what is viewed by most. Could seem to be a hallucination, might also be able to communicate with people without talking or motioning if they're on the same level. Things you learn in a transcendent reality should be applied loosely to life, as a general principle, not as an absolute answer to a question. Also not a good idea to discuss particulars of alternate levels of reality with the vast majority of people, some will be very scared, others will just feel stupid and hate you. \n\nThat guy's not talking about transcending reality, he's talking about brainwashing to create an illusion of another reality, which isn't real.
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the plain truth is variable\nmy truth not necessary to be your truth
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As opposed to artificial?
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Vurtial doesnt not mean close ot real. It means in a fake state. reality is real. So a fake reality.
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You cant. What you are seeing is an illusion. You are the only think that is real in the universe.\n\nJust kidding.\n\nThe above concept, by the way, is called Solipsism, i believe, that you are the only thing that is real, and all else is an illusion.\n\nBut seriously, the only way you can believe anything is to test out the theory that it is true. So, test out the theory that what you see is truly there. If you can touch it, taste it, experience it, then even if it is not there objectively, it is there subjectively, which is all that is important.
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It is all Maya or illusion.\n\nEven Albert Einstein said, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."\n\nand\n\n"Time and space are modes in which we think and not conditions in which we live."\n\nTime and space are, of course, relative.\n\nWhen you die, you will transcend the limits of humanity.  Returning to your original godlike form, you will remember that time and space are only illusions.  You swore an oath to pretend that time and space exist when you decided to come here to play this temporary game of humanity.  \nWhen you return, you will be unable to determine the difference  between one millisecond and 87 billion years, since they are the same.  That is called "eternity".  It is natural, pleasant, peaceful and exciting.\nYou will travel instantly with a thought since distance and space are not.  \nTime, space and distance do not really exist, so you are already there.  You need not travel.  That is called "omnipresence" and it is one of your natural abilities and characteristics.  \n\nOmnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence are really not that difficult when you remove the veil of this grand illusion.  You had a personal hand in designing and creating the universe, space, and the concepts of infinity and the finite.  Life is but a dream.\n\nThe mysteries of the universe are only mysteries to a noisy an cluttered mind. Silence is the veil of God.\n\nAre you starting to remember?\n\n.
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I have a friend who's into quasi Hindu/American Guru philosophy, and he likes to say, " This world is all simply an illusion, and the true reality lies beyond your perception".  Well I have a simple theory of reality, it's kind of like the duck theory?  "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like duck, then it must be a duck".   My theory is, "Reality is who you are, when you are, and where you are".   So, do you know who you are?  Do you know when you are?  Do you know where you are?  That is reality, and everything else is imagination, an illusion, or perhaps even a delusion.
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Your question reminds me of the movie "Matrix" when Neo saw the matrix reality for what it really was, a computer code of binary zeros and ones.\n\nhttp://home.pacbell.net/claydale/matrix_transcript.htm\n\nquote:\n==============================\nSpoon boy\nDo not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. \nInstead only try to realize the truth.\n\nNeo\nWhat truth?\n\nSpoon boy\nThere is no spoon.\n\nNeo\nThere is no spoon?\n\nSpoon boy\nThen you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, \nit is only yourself.\n==============================
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is this real?\n\nIS THIS THE WAY LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE?\n\nthe only hope for the future of mankind is the possibility that someone will be able to realise that the world they were experiencing was  not   the true reality.