(September 17, 2016 at 2:48 am)bennyboy Wrote:(September 17, 2016 at 12:57 am)Maelstrom Wrote: Reality is precisely what we experience through our senses, the same senses that can be verified by others when they experience the same thing within the vicinity.
It is real in the sense that is coherent and shared. But it does not mean that anything exists AS you experience it-- in fact, science tells us that nothing exists as we experience it.
Actually, I think this sheds light on both religious AND non-religious views. For example, if I experience a communion with God, I can be sure that, even if there IS a God, God's nature is not as I'm experiencing it. But this goes for things like a table, too.
I think I see a brown table, but it's just reflecting brown light....5 to 10 milliseconds ago.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
