Does reality change from person to person

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Discussion Overview

The discussion explores the concept of reality as perceived differently by individuals, focusing on how personal experiences and interpretations can lead to distinct understandings of the same object or situation. The scope includes philosophical considerations of perception, interpretation, and the implications of differing realities.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory, Conceptual clarification, Debate/contested

Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose that individuals may perceive colors and shapes differently, suggesting that what one person sees as red might be interpreted as yellow by another.
  • One participant cites color blindness as an example of differing perceptions of color, while noting that the example of shapes like cubes and spheres is more complex due to their physical properties.
  • Another participant asserts that reality is fundamentally tied to perception, leading to the conclusion that each person's reality is unique.
  • One participant challenges the idea by suggesting that while perception varies, the interpretation and reasoning about reality can differ significantly, using the example of a river perceived as both a fishing area and a territorial boundary.
  • A later reply suggests that these differing interpretations lead to the existence of multiple realities held by individuals.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing views on the nature of reality and perception, with some agreeing that reality is subjective while others emphasize the role of interpretation in shaping individual experiences. The discussion remains unresolved with multiple competing perspectives.

Contextual Notes

The discussion highlights the complexity of perception and interpretation, with limitations in defining how these concepts interact and influence the understanding of reality. Assumptions about shared experiences and definitions of reality are not fully explored.

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is it possible that in one persons eyes red would be my yellow and their yellow would be my red and their sphere could be my cube and so on and so forth so that we would be describing an object with a matching description but at the same time be talking about something completely diferent
 
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is it possible that in one persons eyes red would be my yellow and their yellow would be my red and their sphere could be my cube and so on and so forth so that we would be describing an object with a matching description but at the same time be talking about something completely diferent

Sure. Consider people that have red-green color blindness. They have a different experience of color than people with normal three-cone color vision. The cube versus sphere example is a little harder to make a case for - though not completely impossible. Cubes and spheres have properties that cause them to act on things in the world in specific ways, and we learn to work with them and label them from the time we are very small (e.g., we learn to roll the ball and stack the blocks).
 
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Reality is perception and we each perceive differently so each ones reality is different.
 
uh well i'd disagree i think that yes reality is known through experience/perception but our interpretation/reasoning about it is different.

Say for instance i go to some river to fish... but this river ALSO serves as a boundary between to territories.

The locals and i would BOTH perceive it as a long fast moving area of water but they interpret it as a boundary and i perceive it as a fishing area.
 
You would then both be holding two different realities
 

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