23 Oct 09
Originally posted by twhiteheadI dislike saying what reality is because it generates tautologies. Reality is a state of mind. What is a state of mind? Well, a mode of apprehending reality ...
a) ... a state of mind.
b) ... a place where we live, but everyone else with different beliefs does not. eg '.... lost touch with reality'
23 Oct 09
Originally posted by Bosse de NageThe word "reality" can have different meanings depending on context.
I dislike saying what reality is because it generates tautologies. Reality is a state of mind. What is a state of mind? Well, a mode of apprehending reality ...
Now for a much harder question: Is the imagination real?
What about imaginary numbers?
23 Oct 09
Originally posted by twhiteheadI understand reality as a mind-only condition, as a tank of countless potentialities from which all the events -or the absense of the events- emerge; every given event is generated out of this dynamic mind-only field every time that the wavefunction is collapsed.
The word "reality" can have different meanings depending on context.
Now for a much harder question: Is the imagination real?
What about imaginary numbers?
Imagination, a faculty of our brain, is real, and it enables us to hover at will into the dynamic mind-only field of potentialities before we actually collapse the wavefunction by means of action at the realm of the physical world that surrounds usđ”