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I just refuse to let realality get in the way of my life:love: also correct spelling has no part in my life also.

Tis a strange one innt! :weee:

replace really with actually

when i start thinkin that stuff it makes me think “if this isn’t actually real, nothing matters” and that’s not a good mindset, so i try not to go that deeply into philosophy

I disagree that the question has no meaning – it has meaning, just no definite answer….

The question of wether anything matters is an entirely different one though – on a personal level there is no reason to believe that your experience has no basis in reality (the question of wether reality is real or not has no satisfactory answer after all, so the logical way to proceed is to assume it is until you get that satisfactory answer. After all, if it turns out that it is real then you have lost nothing, and equally if it turns out that it isn’t, you have lost nothing..:wink:)

Hmmm – more early morning thoughts… :crazy:

Noname, could you please explain what the question is asking? It makes no sense to me at all.

Glad this reality thing is sorted, nice 1

It’s an old philosophical premise that has been discussed fairly endlessly throughout history (the most famous example being that of Renee Descartes – “Cogito ergo sum”, or “I think therefore I am”, from his Meditations on first philosophy.)

Basically, the idea is that because we experience the universe through the medium of our senses, interpreted by our brains, and every evidence we have of the existence of those experiences is from this interpreted evidence – we have no way of truly knowing if any of it has an objective reality (ie a reality outside of our minds). It is perfectly possible that none of what we are experiencing really exists at all, and it is all a creation of our own imagination – in fact, it is possible that we don’t even exist at all (which is the reason for Descartes first philosophy of “I am thinking, therefore I must exist”)….

We as a general rule make the assumption that reality must exist (because it would be fairly counter productive from a survival stand point not to), but it is interesting to wonder wether it really does have an objective existence, and to discuss the nature of that existence – who knows what the discussion may come up with…. (I didn’t start the thread btw – I have just been waffling about it – something I do well…:wink:)