Reality is 'what is'.

china

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Quoting scratch Then we will disagree to agree or...agree to agree..or dis..​

I don't want to disagree with you when you agree with me, is that agreeable with you, or
do you disagree with my agreement to be so agreeable.​
..... and this is a reality on a CC forum .
 

franc

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[FONT=georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif] "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " -Philip K. Dick[/FONT]
 

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Science will never catch up with reality or philosophy.

Science is a philosophy. But you're right, science will probably never understand the whole of reality in our current mode of existence. There's just too much of it - or more to the point, too much of it that we cannot see.
 

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what is reality but a dream. A continuation of reality. Your reality is at the end of your dream. And where your dream ends, your reality begins. ^-^
 

MissAnnika

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some could be, i know some girls share their dreams with family or friends. and there are books and people who interpret dreams for others
 

franc

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some could be, i know some girls share their dreams with family or friends. and there are books and people who interpret dreams for others

Shared dreams have been clinically tested, and refuted. It is more likely that any "sharing" is due to false memory (to which dreams are very prone), coincidence , or simply lying. And the interpretation of dreams has little to do with shared dreams. ]

I would say that dreams are derived from reality, a function of our real brains using information accrued from waking experience in our little section of reality.
 

franc

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reality is what i want it to b......................damnit!!!

Why you in particular? And if not just you, isn't there the potential for others wanting reality to be something diametrically opposed to what you want?
 

MissAnnika

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Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In other words, "reality", as a philosophical category includes the formal concept of "nothingness" and articulations and combinations of it with other concepts (those possessing extension in physical objects or processes for example).

why thank you Wikipedia
 

china

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[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The mind moves from the known to the known, and it cannot reach out into the unknown. You cannot think of something you do not know; it is impossible. What you think about comes out of the known, the past, whether that past be remote, or the second that has just gone by. This past is thought, shaped and conditioned by many influences, modifying itself according to circumstances and pressures, but ever remaining a process of time. Thought can only deny or assert, it cannot discover the new[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] but when thought is silent, then there may be the new—which is immediately transformed into the old, into the experienced, by thought. Thought is ever shaping, modifying, coloring according to a pattern of experience. The function of thought is to communicate not to be in the state of experiencing. When experiencing ceases, then thought takes over and terms it within the category of the known. Thought cannot penetrate into the unknown, and so it can never experience reality.[/FONT]
 

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Bear,

Have we all become zombies? Do you really think that people have become so lazy and negative that `not even one has an original thought?`. With all due respect to you, I do not and and cannot believe it.

Regards,
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Yes, I believe most if not all people have lazily fallen in line with one form of ideology or another and nothing shall sway them from their course. I to fall into this category.

All right I'm listening, enlighten us poor mindless weaklings, oh please your enormity share your impecability with us we're begging your illustriousness please just let us crawl toward you over the carpet of glass chips and kiss the hem of your priceless trousers, Ooooh I'm being filled and skewered with razor sharp emanations of the onlyest trueest knowledge of such magnificent perfection I'm about to swoon. OH thankyou thankyou your eminence of the swollen head.
You would be a prime example of what I'm talking about.

I,ve never had an original thought, I loot every bit of it, most times it gets mangled in the burlap bag.
This is an absolute fact.
 

Scott Free

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It's interesting to think of what it would mean if Socratic logic were true. I'm not entirely convinced it isn't but if it is it sure turns modern thinking in physics and everything else upside down. I think a sound argument can be made for it. I'm not sure it would prove out however but it might.
 
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