Necessary Thing

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Yeah, I have no beliefs. All I can do is put things into various levels of "realness". For example, if I assume there is some sort of objective reality responsible for all these observations, then any two things from that objective reality would be the same amount of "real". But I can't experience them directly. I only have my brain's interpretations of this reality. All my inputs would be another kind of "real". They aren't necessarily very accurate, and will no doubt contain distortions and my brain gap filling.

If I'm asleep, everything in my dream is another type of "real". I don't even bother trying to say what is "actually real". I have no benchmark. I don't even know what that phrase would mean, without a circular definition.

But for all practical purposes, I assume there is this objective reality, and I interact and try and learn about it as best I can. I assume the other things that are quite like me have similar experiences, somehow. And I get on with it, because there's nothing else I can do. I highly doubt I'll ever have a better picture than this. I decide what I think is important, and I make decisions based on that.

My viewpoint is too caught up in the middle to see things any more objectively. Maybe this is a manifestation of a process in another reality; maybe this is the only reality. And in either case, I have no idea what any of the realities really are, if that question even makes sense. I don't know what questions make sense, ultimately.