Reality Definition and 413 Threads

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?