Every so often there are news articles on research being conducted here and there about who we are and what is the meaning of it all.
A recent study in the UK asked the same question and posited a response indicating that everything we think is real is in fact a hallucination. Some dictionaries describe the verb 'hallucinate' as -experience a seemingly real perception of something not actually present, typically as a result of a mental disorder or of taking drugs.
I find that description fascinating. There are a lot of assumptions in the description. First is Experience. Second the use of word Real. Third the word Perception and then Present. People that study this stuff would have a field day with it. Everything is a matter of perception at the end of the day. Whoa!
I just tried to present another weird cliche. End of the day? Which implies there is a certain beginning and end? How arrogant. Perception too is a matter of consensus. What a majority thinks 'is' is becomes the societal standard. Of course the counter argument is that - we empirically measured it and therefore it is not fantasy but scientific fact, thusly not un-real.
Well. Your measurement was also based on tools and objects in the observed universe and agreed to in consensus. But if we are all mind over matter assuming there is a mind, mind you then we are left to ask if there is a there there (as someone once asked).
A recent study in the UK asked the same question and posited a response indicating that everything we think is real is in fact a hallucination. Some dictionaries describe the verb 'hallucinate' as -experience a seemingly real perception of something not actually present, typically as a result of a mental disorder or of taking drugs.
I find that description fascinating. There are a lot of assumptions in the description. First is Experience. Second the use of word Real. Third the word Perception and then Present. People that study this stuff would have a field day with it. Everything is a matter of perception at the end of the day. Whoa!
I just tried to present another weird cliche. End of the day? Which implies there is a certain beginning and end? How arrogant. Perception too is a matter of consensus. What a majority thinks 'is' is becomes the societal standard. Of course the counter argument is that - we empirically measured it and therefore it is not fantasy but scientific fact, thusly not un-real.
Well. Your measurement was also based on tools and objects in the observed universe and agreed to in consensus. But if we are all mind over matter assuming there is a mind, mind you then we are left to ask if there is a there there (as someone once asked).
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