Question:
what is real?
Damon
2015-07-06 13:14:07 UTC
if real is simply what we experience through electrical signals interpreted by the brain. what would it mean if we could manipulate those signals and creat virtual realities, would that be considerd real also? is the reality we percieve acctually virtual? if i get killed in this reality how do we know that another reality cant be manifested? when i dream at night i experience a reality but if the dream could go on, how would that dream be anydifferant from the reality i experience everyday? we are getting better and better at creating virtual realities as time goes on, if one day it becomes indistinguishable from our day to day lives What does that mean? what is the brain but a virtual machine itself buffering out consciousness. if i could have a stable dream and i could build machines in that dream what would that be? even when i dream i have eyes that see so theres obviously a organ functioning for that purpose while i sleep. i understand why we must survive in this reality, it is a rule based simulation built with structure for the purpose of manifesting what we imagine, if there were no rules nor structure we would jsut be a jumble of nonsense with no meaning, no function or purpose. are thoughts real? can you imagine anything? yet dont we strive to make our imaginations real. thoughts dont have any tangible existence in reality yet they exist everyone can be sure of that. maby reality is just a long thought taking place for the purpose of giving us structure,
26 answers:
?
2015-07-06 14:44:40 UTC
You have already bought the machine (brain waves, etc...)



So you are already way ahead of me. You tell me how that works. I live in a completely subjective planet.
kat m
2015-07-06 18:21:09 UTC
Cool thought.

I know as you should that the physical life, once it's done, it's pretty much done.

You're right man does a pretty amazing interpretation of many things, even a virtual reality. However, even though dreams as real as they be they are not the physical you but merely an electrical impulse driven simulation perhaps about you & from you. I can put a pretty mask on a goat but the goat is still a goat. Ok that got weird?!
sankar
2015-07-09 20:33:12 UTC
Cool thought.

I know as you should that the physical life, once it's done, it's pretty much done.

You're right man does a pretty amazing interpretation of many things, even a virtual reality. However, even though dreams as real as they be they are not the physical you but merely an electrical impulse driven simulation perhaps about you & from you. I can put a pretty mask on a goat but the goat is still a goat. Ok that got weird?!
Eye Am Eternal
2015-07-06 18:16:43 UTC
I have a secret for you. Where you are, I know what's next. I know what's coming after that too. I know beyond the dream world. I know the other eye you speak of. Just look at my icon, The Eye. Eye Am Eternal. Eye See beyond the physical life you and others call reality. It's real but just a small fragment of all reality. Since our beginning on earth. there have been many others who spoke of such things. Still today, We Exist.



I know you voted already, I just had to respond after reading your question to the fullest. I was drawn to it.



ben472111@yahoo.com
?
2015-07-06 15:01:31 UTC
Look at it from a geologic point of view.



We know for a fact, that the planet that we live on was here long before any life evolved on it.



Therefore, our molecular structure is part of the "real atomic soup" of the planet.



What is real is things that have atomic structure, and we have atomic structure, and so do the planets, stars, and whatever.



Our "awareness" is simply how biological mammals of our kind survive. We think and propel the body to do extraordinary things, but what is real is our body, not our mind.
Alls4One
2015-07-07 05:00:06 UTC
Realty can easily be subjective and therefore easy to answer there is no such thing as real. Real is Actual, and actuality is the presence of happening whether we can either or both see, hear, smell, feel, touch. Real is simply the being of time.
Morgan
2015-07-06 13:21:21 UTC
Reality
?
2015-07-06 13:44:51 UTC
(((((Damon))))) :)



You've got some really cool ideas there, man! Kind of makes me want to eat your brain.. Although that would be evil, so I think I'll just go eat some ice-cream instead! :-P



Reality is a tricky thing, indeed.. I've been reading just a little bit about quantum physics as of lately, and that only makes it even weirder! Did you know that, certain atomic particles can snap in and out of existence, exist in multiple different places at once, etc..? And them being observed by us, apparently changes their status! So they can exist in all of these different places at first.. Then when we perceive them, that narrows it down to them only existing in ONE place! Or at least that's how I understand it... (Feel free to yell at me if I'm totally butchering it, all of you quantum physicists that are closely monitoring this thread.. Because I'm sure there are just SO damn many of you, right?! I mean, just about everyone and their mom is a quantum physicist, these days.. :-P)



So couldn't that be taken to mean, through using just our consciousness, we are actually directly altering physical reality..? And there's an infinite number of possibilities..? And maybe there are parallel levels of existence, that we're not yet aware of.. Where those quantum particles disappear, and manifest in THIS existence, and they are exactly as confused by it as we are..? Maybe there's not just ONE Cassie and ONE Damon, but an infinite number of possible Cassies and Damons, existing in all of these parallel realities..? I don't really know.. But it sure as hell IS fun to think about! And I think, most likely, this reality is FAR weirder than any single one of us could possibly even begin to imagine.. Which, personally, I absolutely love that! <3 :)



Also, what we perceive as real, and solid, and physical, actually consists of mostly empty SPACE! Because that's what atoms and molecules are composed of, when it all comes down to it.. So maybe we are in a sense just a hologram. Or a dream. Or the thought of someone else.. That kind of would make a LOT of sense to me, considering how I personally experience God.. If there's one thing I'm thoroughly convinced of, it's that everything is One. Everything is made up of the same stuff.. We are ALL parts of God in a sense. Just God manifesting as different things, and splitting itself up into fragments, sort of.. Fragments that are utterly convinced that they ARE their egos, instead of being one with everything.. And I think that's the current game that we're playing! Snapping out of that state of ignorance, and amnesia, and once again returning to that level of existence.. To our true Self, that we ALL share, that is NOT our surface level ego selves.. And that thing, that force, that substance, or whatever, that keeps morphing into different things over time, is what I personally see as God. Which is also a force of perfect, infinite, unfathomable LOVE! <3 :)



What if our apparent lack of physicality, and everything being mostly empty space, is because we are merely the thoughts, or dreams, of that thing..? And the reason why particles keep appearing and reappearing, and can exist in so many different places at once, is because there's an infinite number of possibilities..? Because anything that can be thought, can also be manifested in some way... And in a sense, we're real. But also, at the same time, we are NOT real..?



Fun question! You can haz star! Keep being you, and keep being awesome! Have a lovely day.. *Hugs for you.* :)
?
2015-07-08 00:03:05 UTC
for the body which is the mind everything is real

everything you are surronded by is going in whether you notice it or not, thats why it seems like we live in chaos

we dont live in a natural environment and so all the noise,colors and smells are creating a mess in the head

so we live in an age of confusion because weve basically freed ourselves from nature by breaking out from it yet weve enslaved ourselves by living in concrete jungles becoming concrete ourselves since we are what we feed all our senses with
James
2015-07-25 04:40:33 UTC
You speak of using hallucinations controlled probably by computers, to create a virtual world in which to play live or thrive. But this could also be used to augment your reality, display information for you.
fdfaf
2015-07-07 16:06:39 UTC
You already know what real is. IF you were not know what real is, you wouldn't ask what real is. Since u know what real is, you can ask this question.
Elisabeth
2015-07-07 14:12:46 UTC
ENERGY.



is i believe the only possible answer to this question. We can only be aware of energy. We are energy, our thoughts are energy, what we perceive outside us is energy, the concept of alternate realities involves ergy, or of altered states of consciousness, or of heaven and hell. Can something exist without energy? No. Science claims that energy cannot be destroyed. Only converted.



People who take drugs often claim to experience visions, or different worlds or realities or color or sounds are experiencing energy differently.



im genuis...take that descartes
_Object
2015-07-06 22:51:28 UTC
Your perception is the universe --- or, is it mine?



Do not forget that every observation comes to you through your perception. This is all you get, all you know. Looking for more is a waste of time, because there's too much already. :)
2015-07-06 15:05:56 UTC
I'd like to introduce you to Descartes, who asked these same questions almost 400 years ago.
neallesh
2015-07-07 11:50:53 UTC
only love is real
?
2015-07-06 13:34:24 UTC
Deaf-blind people already live in this state yet when communication is established they are living happy lives
Got Proof?
2015-07-06 13:16:13 UTC
As a great sci-fi writer once said: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
2015-07-06 17:43:30 UTC
"Structure" as "geometrically coalesced Energy" builds the physical universe.



Related: "The Physics of the Soul;" "The Path of the Higher Self;" "Light Is a Living Spirit;" "Kundalini West;" "God at the Speed of Light."
Dr abdus
2015-07-08 07:27:29 UTC
The reality is mainly man's life and man's death.
Kimberlee
2015-07-08 03:43:10 UTC
define real?
?
2015-07-06 13:28:08 UTC
definitely NOT what gays and atheists say ! and definitely NOT what you are told in the university text and lectures of false teachers!
David GH UK
2015-07-20 12:55:16 UTC
What is actually happening,what we can see.
Taylor
2015-07-06 13:24:11 UTC
Are you high?
?
2015-07-08 13:27:31 UTC
my swag
2015-07-09 10:06:10 UTC
I like this question ... nice!!!!
MD SHIFAT
2015-07-08 04:00:14 UTC
no


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