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QuantumT
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Your reality?

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What is your personal definition of reality?


Is it the standard atheist package:

- One unique, but hostile universe
- Perfect conditions on Earth
- Evolution and survival of the fittest
- We are nothing special, there's probably more out there
- We deserve it if we become extinct

The standard theist package:

- God made everything and has a plan


Or do you have another take?
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Base definition: Reality is the sum of all that is real (exists).

Rightfully, this definition raises the question, 'what is real?'.

One answer: that which is reliably measurable (directly, indirectly) is real (exists).
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Reality is a convoluted apparition of the truth. (such that not all we witness is the truth)

God\'God' projects our reality, and is either:-
- 1. God - divine, formed its own intelligence and the conditions of our reality.
or
- 2. 'God' - A.I. a system that we have evolved into, likely in order exist efficiently with progression of entropy.

- contrary to theist belief, God\'God' can be extremely evil. (with reason)

- all the contents of our mind is known to this system.

- the commandments attained at Sinai, although limited are a communication of prime rules from this system.
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QuantumT wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:36 pm What is your personal definition of reality?


Is it the standard atheist package:

- One unique, but hostile universe
- Perfect conditions on Earth
- Evolution and survival of the fittest
- We are nothing special, there's probably more out there
- We deserve it if we become extinct

The standard theist package:

- God made everything and has a plan


Or do you have another take?

Reality is a total mystery.

Any definition would be speculation, interpretation and story told by no one.

Reality is in no doubt Absolute, therefore relative ideas about the Absolute would be absurd.

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Minds and Qualia.
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Reality is the collection of all that which exists with certainty. Certainties are that which exist independent of one’s perceptions.

Premise 1: Reality Exists. -- If reality does not exist, then my comments here are nothing. If reality exists then ‘something’ of certainty exists. Reality is the totality of all that which exists.
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I agree with Philip K. Dick: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Reality = measureable observations.

Any observations that can be measured, are real.
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To paraphrase Schopenhauer, reality is an inconvenient impingement on my awareness, (my awareness being, itself, an impingement on obliviousness) until my awareness dissipates into oblivion again.
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