Heres something to think about
How much of your experience is reality based? and how much is imagination based?
I have to clarify a bit here, I'm using the word imagination as "anything that the brain adds onto your interaction with the world"
To me....It seems that >95% of what we experience is purely in our heads. What would we expect to be the result of this?
A huge variety of ways of living life, belief systems, cultures, traditions. Only tempered by one set of ideas an beliefs dominanting another set into oblivion.
It means in many situations just by changing ones perception of a situation changes the entire experience of that situation.
It means we have to work really really hard to workout what is real.
It means reality is often less interesting than what we can imagine.
It means our experience of life is very controllable. By our selves or others.
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The whole next paragraph is prefixed with “I think”
This is a good point. It comes to the heart of philosophy. What we want to try and do is extract what is justifiably believable given the limits of our perception. There is always a leap of faith we have to make. We all have various reasons to justify our beliefs. It’s very hard to argue between different leaps of faith. But for me, perceiving that there are many many different kinds of leaps of faith people tend to make helps justify the belief that much of our experience is not “real” but yet makes up what we *feel* to be life. Which for me seems to follow from the idea that the universe is a large complex system with many emergent systems that are set in conflict with other. Which then I believe feeds into the whole evolutionary process. Which eventually came up with human brain which is such a massively complex system the kind of emergent behavior its capable of is truly amazing. For other people these beliefs are not justifiable or perhaps they slightly varying justification, or potentially completely different justifications. But at some point you have to have a leap of in the set of justified beliefs that seem meaningful for you. Of course the journey of life tends clarify or change those beliefs. Which is where the real wisdom is seen.
not only missing words, it missed entire concepts!
I think this blogging thing is going to be quite useful for my writing.
Ive just been reading a great book called 'explaining postmoderism'. This whole idea of a 'concept of reality' is what kicked the whole postmodern theory off. It was used by Kant to explain that there is no such thing as objectivity and in fact it turns the world upside down. Our perception of something tells us more about us that the thing we are percieving. It is the subject that has the power. He used this to urgue that knowledge of the external world does not really exist.
Interesting to think about for a while, but then i get bored and go for a surf :)
Its fun to think about at times, though often ends in very circular self defining thought :-)
I think since a lot of our reality is in our minds there is many many things that have no objective truth. However I do think there is an objective ontology. Its just that ontology tends to generate lots of emergent systems. Emergent systems have no objectivity but they tend to make up the largest proportion of our perceived reality. So I think post modernisim threw the baby out with the bath water when it starts to claim no objectivity for everything. Though for most things that we find interesting as humans it tends to have a lot of truth.
Whether or not what I think is true or not is debatable. However, true or not, I think it makes for a much better model for describing the nature of life/being.
Oh man, that sucks, I was gonna comment that my brain hurts just reading this stuff, but servant beat me too it!
heh, its like drinking ice cold drinks, you just take a few sips at a time otherwise you end up with brain freeze
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