@JLNobody,
Yes. There's a stand-up comedian, Jim Jeffries, who talks about this, and it makes me laugh every time.
He goes on about how there were two white people put into the jungle by God, and they went at it and had children, and then more children, and for the amount of inbreeding, very few retards.
What if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?
@Cyracuz,
How would our lives be without notions of truth, reality, goodness, etc.?
@JLNobody,
What would it be like to be a rock?
@Cyracuz,
It's good that you've come up with a notion about reality that is true.
@Cyracuz,
Found what you were talking bout.
I thought I'd chuck some Bill Hicks talking a bit about reality for good measure...
Should religion be dragged into this conversation as well?
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein--
@mars90000000,
Just thought I'd dig up the vid in context of Cryacuz's post.
@Procrustes,
I think both Bill Hicks and Jim Jefferies are awesome comedians. I've seen these clips many times, but somehow they still make me laugh. Thanks
@mars90000000,
There are three different kinds of real. philosophical, perceptive and practical.
Philosophical real is describable with words.
Perceptive real is individual feeling
Practical real is the way things are, not they we want them to be.
@Rickoshay75,
Did you get that from "Readers Digest"?
@fresco,
Would he be sort of accurate?
@fresco,
Did you get that from "Readers Digest"?
If I did I don't remember. I'm more inclined to credit my 75 years of reading living, research, and over ten years of forum debates.
"What is real?" is a question that becomes stranger and stranger the more I look at it. I say "look at it" rather than "think about it". This is because when thinking about it I take so much for granted, presuppositions that make it seem almost self-evident or mundane.
I guess scientists do not consider this question (What is real?) a "basic" problem. Practically, of course, they want to avoid delusions, like "optical illusions". But this does not itself have intellectual or theoretical significance. Psychologically, of course, we want our thoughts, feelings and perceptions of the world to be "realistic"--not sure why, except for practical reasons. And the avoidance of delusion has great "spiritual" significance for meditative Buddhism.
But when I meditate, i.e., look as openly, receptively, non-defensively, and with as few presuppositions as possible, at "my" world of objects the idea of "real-ness" has little or no significance. Everything simply "IS", whether it be "objectively real" or not. Phenomenological reality is my ultimate reality, and it IS me, my "true" Self.
Forgive the sermon
@mars90000000,
What if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?>
It would either be a dream or an illusion...
@Procrustes,
What would it be like to be a rock?
A good, dependable friend you can rely on.
@JLNobody,
Everything simply "IS", whether it be "objectively real" or not.>>
Excellent example of practical reality
