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brush

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6. Such bs. Everyone's reality is their reality. Period.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Mon Sep 13, 2021, 02:50 AM

Sep 2021

Our senses are our reality. There are things our senses aren't sensitive enough to detect but if those things began to affect us, they become our reality too.

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Is reality real? These neuroscientists don't think so [View all] Uncle Joe Sep 2021 OP

I want to know how a blind since birth person BigmanPigman Sep 2021 #1

Could it be a sort of chemical hallucination that is beyond our walkingman Sep 2021 #3

And even the nature of "objective" reality is questioned Otto_Harper Sep 2021 #2

Words can not describe, multigraincracker Sep 2021 #4

Neuroscientists don't think reality is real? LudwigPastorius Sep 2021 #5

That should be tested by neuroscientists too. BigmanPigman Sep 2021 #8

Such bs. Everyone's reality is their reality. Period. brush Sep 2021 #6

so there is no objective external reality? Voltaire2 Sep 2021 #11

Then that becomes our reality. brush Sep 2021 #12

Many years ago I had a professor NullTuples Sep 2021 #7

Sounds like you lucked out with that professor. BigmanPigman Sep 2021 #9

Seems obvious to me. Kablooie Sep 2021 #10