Can we see reality as it is?

[bennyboy]

To answer the OP:

No, we can't. All we can see is that some, many or most experiences seem consistent with each other-- or at least with an idea we have about what underlies them.

I respectively disagree. We do see reality as it is, we simply do not see all of reality since we are not omniscient.

People talk about reality, but they should talk about reality AS. Experiences are real-- as experiences. Red is really red. The taste of hot chocolate on a winter day is really just that. We are experiencing those things as they really are, because they are experiences. Do those experiences represent some underlying, objective reality? Not really.

But when the OP starts talking about "true reality," what does that mean? He wants to know whether a true objectivity, resulting in true understanding of what is real, is possible. My position is that it's impossible to know while still maintaining sentience. So long as you are perceiving, how can you ever know that what you think is cool, objective observation, isn't really just another layer of self-delusion?

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Thinking about it too much is kind of like staring into the abyss, only instead of staring back, it starts ranting off gibberish about wave functions.