Choice is not a factor, since folks do as they must ... such as overlook the gist.Sculptor wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 9:54 pmWhether or not you chose to call it delusion, illusion, perception there is not doubt that we all "see" the world is different ways. This is because we cannot directly have access to reality.Walker wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 7:26 pmOnly insofar as delusion is considered to be an aspect of reality. Delusion exists within the context of reality, because there is nowhere else for delusion to exist.
However, in the sense that folks have the activated capacity to perceive, react to, and believe in delusion, then folks do not live in reality.
Everyone has delusions. Relationships with delusion, vary. The variance is clinging. Release clinging to thought, to silence thought, to live in reality without delusion.
Thought is change, change is detected by movement. One thought only, that does not move to another thought, is no change.
No one sees exactly what is there. One can detract from Kant as much as one chooses but he was right about that.
Do you or Kant have a comment about clinging to perception, or the beliefs generated by clinging to perception? Clinging is the gist that can be referenced moment-to-moment, since it's not dependent on abstract notions of reality, or words in a book, plus everyone in their own, "different" way, knows of the Clingons.