bahman wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:18 pm
Illusion is subjected to destruction. Therefore you cannot have a reality which persist.
Note "change is the only constant" therefore everything is "destroyed" eventually.
Since "change is the only constant" there is no reality which persists permanently.
Your theory 'a reality which persists' is an illusion itself.
You think there is 'a reality which persists' only relative to your limited life and sense of reality but not in relation to reality-as-it-is.
Humans live and survive within a reality-as-it-is but there is is no reality which persists and exists by itself independent of human conditions. Note Kant's argument there is no-thing-in-itself or reality-in-itself [noumenon or Ding an sich].
Note the critical point of the difference between ILLUSION-A and illusion-B.
ILLUSION-A is a transcendental illusion while illusion-B is related to the empirical.
An illusion occurs in the mind when one takes something to be objectively real when it is not the case, e.g. seeing a 'real' snake and get terrified when it is actually a real rope.
In another perspective a real rope is also an illusion in a way if we switch to an atomic perspective. In this case the 'real' rope is a real cluster of atoms. But this is still an empirical illusion.
Illusion-A occurs only in 3 instances, e.g.
- 1. when one insist God is a real thing when there is no proofs for its existence as real.
2. there is an independent mind or soul that exist independently within the person.
3. there is a whole Universe created by an unproven God.
Why you are so desperate in insisting there is a reality-in-itself independent of the human conditions is due to your own human psychology related to an existential crisis.