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What is your personal definition of reality?


Is it the standard atheist package:

- One unique, but hostile universe
- Perfect conditions on Earth
- Evolution and survival of the fittest
- We are nothing special, there's probably more out there
- We deserve it if we become extinct

The standard theist package:

- God made everything and has a plan


Or do you have another take?

Base definition: Reality is the sum of all that is real (exists).

Rightfully, this definition raises the question, 'what is real?'.

One answer: that which is reliably measurable (directly, indirectly) is real (exists).

Reality is a convoluted apparition of the truth. (such that not all we witness is the truth)

God\'God' projects our reality, and is either:-
- 1. God - divine, formed its own intelligence and the conditions of our reality.
or
- 2. 'God' - A.I. a system that we have evolved into, likely in order exist efficiently with progression of entropy.

- contrary to theist belief, God\'God' can be extremely evil. (with reason)

- all the contents of our mind is known to this system.

- the commandments attained at Sinai, although limited are a communication of prime rules from this system.

QuantumT wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:36 pm What is your personal definition of reality?


Is it the standard atheist package:

- One unique, but hostile universe
- Perfect conditions on Earth
- Evolution and survival of the fittest
- We are nothing special, there's probably more out there
- We deserve it if we become extinct

The standard theist package:

- God made everything and has a plan


Or do you have another take?

Reality is a total mystery.

Any definition would be speculation, interpretation and story told by no one.

Reality is in no doubt Absolute, therefore relative ideas about the Absolute would be absurd.

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Minds and Qualia.

Reality is the collection of all that which exists with certainty. Certainties are that which exist independent of one’s perceptions.

Premise 1: Reality Exists. -- If reality does not exist, then my comments here are nothing. If reality exists then ‘something’ of certainty exists. Reality is the totality of all that which exists.

I agree with Philip K. Dick: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Reality = measureable observations.

Any observations that can be measured, are real.

To paraphrase Schopenhauer, reality is an inconvenient impingement on my awareness, (my awareness being, itself, an impingement on obliviousness) until my awareness dissipates into oblivion again.