What is reality?

[Kramer]

I was watching a scientific lecture and he said our brains have their own virtual reality software. We're all human, so we pretty much all experience it the same unless we're schizophrenic for example.

So our brains are showing us a false reality. What then is reality? Is it something abstract like floating numbers or bits of code?

 

[Deleted member 22624]

I was watching a scientific lecture and he said our brains have their own virtual reality software. We're all human, so we pretty much all experience it the same unless we're schizophrenic for example.

So our brains are showing us a false reality. What then is reality? Is it something abstract like floating numbers or bits of code?

Light is just photons, scattered by substance that is basically empty space. Our eyes pick up the photons and our brains flesh it out into solids, colours.

 

[Kramer]

Light is just photons, scattered by substance that is basically empty space. Our eyes pick up the photons and our brains flesh it out into solids, colours.

So when I look at anything out in public, what am i really seeing? I don't mean on the micro level but in general.

 

[Deleted member 22624]

It's like covering an invisible ghost with a bedsheet so you can see it, except the ghost actually has mass etc. There's really no such thing as the colours you see, it's completely made up way of representing photon frequency

 

[Kramer]

It's like covering an invisible ghost with a bedsheet so you can see it, except the ghost actually has mass etc. There's really no such thing as the colours you see, it's completely made up way of representing photon frequency

Is reality just black and white?

 

[Deleted member 22624]

Is reality just black and white?

Masses, energy and fields time and space, no black or white

 

[Kramer]

Masses, energy and fields time and space, no black or white

What does a human look like in this context?

 

[Deleted member 22624]

What does a human look like in this context?

There's no such thing as a look, the human is just there

 

[Kramer]

There's no such thing as a look, the human is just there

The human looks the same but the environment is just mass and energy?

 

[Deleted member 22624]

Lol you're so just having fun with me now :)

 

[happiestman]

I was watching a scientific lecture and he said our brains have their own virtual reality software. We're all human, so we pretty much all experience it the same unless we're schizophrenic for example.

So our brains are showing us a false reality. What then is reality? Is it something abstract like floating numbers or bits of code?

What kind/type of scientific? related to human brain or optics or any other physics?

It sounds more like a spiritual lecture :-)

 

[Deleted member 22624]

What kind/type of scientific? related to human brain or optics or any other physics?

It sounds more like a spiritual lecture :-)

Perception's a popular research field? Enough to explore how different people perceive not just the 3d world as something else eg auras but to see other things visually for example like experiencing numbers as specific shapes

 

[Kramer]

What kind/type of scientific? related to human brain or optics or any other physics?

It sounds more like a spiritual lecture :-)

Richard Dawkins lecture on biology

I don't watch spiritual anything. It's just superstition

 

[signifying nothing]

In terms of the human experience of reality you might (if haven't already) look into phenomenology.

In terms of objective reality outside of the human experience? I don't think we can really know what it is because we are limited to our human form.

 

[Kramer]

In terms of the human experience of reality you might (if haven't already) look into phenomenology.

In terms of objective reality outside of the human experience? I don't think we can really know what it is because we are limited to our human form.

So the Buddhists are right about the world being an illusion

 

[signifying nothing]

So the Buddhists are right about the world being an illusion

Our perception of the world is an illusion. Because we necessarily have to experience it from a particular point of view, in this body, with only these faculties, with the mind processing it all into something coherent.

 

[Kramer]

Our perception of the world is an illusion. Because we necessarily have to experience it from a particular point of view, in this body, with only these faculties, with the mind processing it all into something coherent.

We're a box with 5 holes.

 

[signifying nothing]

We're a box with 5 holes.

Lol. You can be a box with 5 holes. I'd like to think we're slightly more advanced than that. Slightly...

 

[Kramer]

Lol. You can be a box with 5 holes. I'd like to think we're slightly more advanced than that. Slightly...

Yeah we have limbs too