Random sleep-addled thoughts

[nadriel]

What is reality?

What is real?

Can it be defined objectively?

Bah, I had other thoughts, but they got lost.

Comments

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

Thankfully philosophers have been answering these questions for years.
Sadly their answers are about as crap as anyone else can come up with.
For now, I say 'meh?'
If icecream stil tastes like icecream, whether you believe it's real or not, does it really matter?

[haroeris-astrum.livejournal.com]

I tend to ask "what is useful?" opposed to what is real these days

[mapp.livejournal.com]

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

[scorpionchild.livejournal.com]

Thank you and goodnight Bill Hicks... :o)

[scorpionchild.livejournal.com]

Reality is that nasty creature with big sharp teeth that bites you on the ass just when you were all nice and cozy in some happy, self-delusional dream-state...

Perhaps.

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

I think that probably counts as "subjective reality" :P

[seidhepriest.livejournal.com]

"Excessive objectiveness".

Really. So much bloody objectiveness, that it gets lost reality is, as well, subject-created... It gets lost a human being is a creature that carries reality within himself, is a reality himself and can create reality.

Isn't it obvious all that "objectiveness" generates non-existing emptiness?

The Thoughts Of Dave - Pseudo-Coherent

[davidnm.livejournal.com]

What is reality? Hmmm. I'd say that the reality we experience is defined by a mix of external sensation and personal cognitive processes. Both of these will differ one person to the next as various peoples' sense organs have varying levels of efficacy, as do their cognitive processes. The ideal would be a mind and a set of eyes etc that present the outside universe as it actually is - this would be the objective reality.

Failing that, the easiest way to approach objective reality is what we might call the 'democratic' approach - look for sensations and experiences that are shared by as many people as possible, as presumably there must be some external basis to these.