living in the past

[MerlinsByte]

This is an edit and clarification a abstract without the details...



The real world is an illusion


We are constantly living in an illusion. We are experiencing the past and assuming it is the present. Due to the time that light requires and the delay that results while our brain translates the sensory information into “reality” we will always experience the past as the present moment. The present will always elude us. And when the profound effects of time dilation are applied , this living in the past may be stretched from nanoseconds to years or decades.


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[Jack]

Add to that the fact that there are colors and sounds we cannot percieve without mechanical means, and you begin to realize that what we assume to be reality is actually only a limited awareness of everything that's happening at any moment.

[MerlinsByte]

Quote by: Jeber Add to that the fact that there are colors and sounds we cannot percieve without mechanical means, and you begin to realize that what we assume to be reality is actually only a limited awareness of everything that's happening at any moment.

Yes how true. Reality is not real it seems.

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[tusaki]

I would say reality is not "complete", but real nonetheless, because "real" is just a metaphor for "whatever I currently sense and believe in".

[SVMc]

I would say that reality is subjective rather than objective. Humans conceive and define and control what is "reality" and individual humans conceive define and control their own subjective "realities".