Reality Definition and 435 Threads

I posted this thread in the math forum, but no one seems to know what I am talking about... since i heard dr sylvester gates say it and he specializes in superstring theory, maybe someone here can help me out.. im trying to understand the expression, "the more math makes sense, reality...

I have heard the expression, "the more math makes sense, reality doesnt... and the more reality makes sense, math doesnt". Can someone give an example of this expression? What does it mean?

Its has occurred to me for some time that there is a fine line between imagination and reality...i think the mistake people always make is with the need to classify an experience as either being an hallucination/aborition or something wholey real. Surely what we percieve as reality (whether...

as all observations and feelings are merely electrical impulses interpreted by my brain, who's to say any laws of physics really apply? who's to say I'm not a machine made of iron led to believe i am a man with a meat-computer in my head. who's to say I'm not in The Matrix (TM)?

Iraqis tell the reality of Iraq... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3515884.stm Amazing that all of the Iraqis posting say it's better. The poll shows that most think it is bettter now than before. And yet MOST that are posting from outside of Iraq say they don't believe...

I have a Laymans understanding of this subject but here goes... I'm sitting now in my living room looking at the fireplace. My act of observation (photons bouncing of the electrons into my eyes) cause the wave function to collapse and create the reality of the fireplace. I now turn my back...

I disagree. Experimental agreement is not grounds for establishing a theory. There needs to be a reason, based on some principle, that can explain why these things are true. For example, if I am in a spaceship traveling the speed of light relativity says that I can not walk from one end of...

Does anyone know of other good, simple or well known metaphors for our relationship to reality besides Plato's allegory of the cave?

Hi, I just saw The Butterfly Effect in theaters yesterday after much much resistance... and i thought it was a GREAT movie... i don't know if the actual movie was great but the perspective on reality is what got me the most... In this movie, whenever he reads a passage from one of his...

how would our life be different if all fossil fuels suddenly disappeared ?

Someone posted the following at alt.atheism: How do you know what happens after death? Have you been in that position? If we are the rational skeptics we ought to be, we will doubt that our perception of 'fleshiness', or materialism in general, is a complete and perfect perception. If we...

riddle me this! Simply asked, is our personal reality unique and separate from the mass reality while participating in mass events? As an extension, are there an infinite number of realities co-existing simultaneously and creating the observable mass reality?

Is Ouija Board real?

Reality&Energy I have certain beleives on reality and i was wondering about others view on exactly what reality is. i believe that what we see has reality is a physical representation of energy and that when one can do flips or any other physical or mental ability that is "imposiable" is...

Would anyone like to share ideas on what makes something real other than what our senses tell us to believe? Or are we completely dependant on our senses so that even if there was an alternate reality we would never wittness it as it really is. I know this sounds like something straight out of...

Another post has been discussing standards used in measuring an observable. We attach a number as a value to use to create other numbers. So I thought I would open a discussion on the standard or reality of Zero. If Zero is a standard but not a reality it would have to be the most...

'One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.' Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I watch and see this continual barage of foolish conversation upon fired sand structures, but no one knows the sand or addresses it. From the sand comes all things made. Like from the water or from the air. I challange any of you on this forum all of you inlcuding you outside this forum or to...

"Reality", Mathematics, and Computer Software I believe this thread belongs in the Philosophy of Science and Mathematics section rather than in the "Software" section, because it deals with, well, philosophy of science and mathematics. First of all, what IS mathematics? Is it not a way of...

What is reality?? Dear reader can anyone explain me what is reality? -benzun please, explain in simple words

malai5 suggested to write down "what do i need to know at this time?" and see what floats in. i saw no harm in this so i did. and i began auto-writing. I'm not making a definite claim about the source of this writing except that it is probably something very personal to me. perhaps it is my...

This discussion originally arose in the thread "The answer to the 'Does God exist' question from Human Practice." I'm posting it in a new thread because by now it's a pretty deep tangent to the original thread and it's also an issue worth discussing in its own right. I am not arguing for...

One Singular Reality = One Singular viewpoint of/on Reality? This website and this forum is about to discuss amongst people of various beliefs and non-beliefs the reality of God, and - since not all people are believers in God - we should add here: the reality of the world itself, and wether...

Refutation of reductionism (excerpt from "The Fabric of Reality," by David Deutsch) The whole title of this thread should read "Refutation of reductionism as a fundamental explanatory framework (excerpt from The Fabric of Reality, by David Deutsch)" but there wasn't enough room for that...

When I first learned long ago that huge moon during moonrise is not optical distortion, but pure human mind produced illusion, I was quite astonished. http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/city_of_stars/21_full_moon.html It is explained away by fact that for human, atmosphere above seems...

"Japanese inventor has brought personal invisibility a step closer to reality" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_invisible.html

When you wake up from a dream...sometimes you are sad as you woke up and suddenly realized that you were dreaming and it was not true. Sometimes you wake up to realize..."thank god it was just a dream".. So what is the reality here...Is the so felt reality for real or its just coming out from...

?? Continued from my past post My definition of existence is a narrow principle; not a grand principle. It is logical to me to say that if some form "exists" (existence in the an ultimate, absolute, philosophical sense; a common philosophyical question is whether oneself exists...

Reality has connotations of a subjective experience to it. In defining reality; the ultimate reality will be the ultimate source of causation of all of the reality that we see today. By paradox I mean as the paradoxes associated with quantum mechanics. Whatever drives the nature of things...

The ultimate reality will be pure paradox. Since if the ultimate conclusion of reality is conclusively logical, we would eventually become bored out of our minds and then we would eventually conclude that our conclusion was irrational seeing that the world no longer makes sense. The "forces"...

This reasons are: 1) BB expects shaping 3D space from 0D zero point. This impossible. 2) BB expects the expansion of space at the speed of light. If BB began with flashes of the light, then the universe on today look like empty sphere by radius 10 billion light years with the background...

What is life, if not that which is held internally? What is essence, if not that which is contained within form? Doesn't this suggest that life is an "interior process," by which the external "material world" exists to serve? And, that perhaps we should spend some time focusing on our "interior...

"I now inform you that you are too far from reality" http://64.39.15.171 or http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com Apparently I am not the only one who found the "wacky Iraqi"'s speeches the best thing on the news for the last couple weeks. Our initial assessment is that they...

I wanted to give the readers (several did ask me to do this) a more direct understanding of my philosophy - which advocates an ultimate reality of a single Mind - and of how the universe we perceive fits-in, perfectly, with this idea. Instead of trying to prove that this is the ultimate-reality...

1. Briefly define "reality." 2. Is a "proof" of reality possible? 3. Relate your most direct proof of reality. 4. Does, or how does, that differ from a God-proof?