Is reality real? - A philosophic reflection on perception

montycashmusic in Deep Dives • 4 years ago (edited)

Life is a journey of constant correction - on the road of 'progress'.

Perceived correction.
Perceived progress.

Is what is perceived represented in actual reality?
What are the measures of perception?
What are the measures of reality?
What are the best possible strategies for having an accurate perception of reality not based solely on our perception?

We can immediately improve our chances of perceiving a realer perception of reality by accepting that what we deem reality at present is merely a perception of reality and not reality itself.

To believe a perception of reality is reality is to become 'perceived' and to no longer be the perceiver.

All ideas of real reality are perceptions.

We can also then further increase our knowledge of reality (real reality) by acknowledging that reality cannot be known - in that reality cannot be perceived, in that perception is unable to definitively define what reality is to an ultimate gold standard of 'is-ness'.

This assists because no matter how real we become convinced something is, we must at any moment be able to acknowledge that is it not real.

Otherwise we actually become perceived and we stop being the perceiver - that which resides in the domains and intricacies of perception and not the perceiver itself. A picture of a perceiver within a perceived picture.

In this, true objectivity can never be achieved - only ideas of it.

This is not a limitation but a point of liberation.

It allows all ideas to flourish alongside each other in a broad banquet of perception by maintaining the position of perceiver at all times - seeing rabbit holes or domains of perception but never committing to any one of them as an absolute rule of thumb.

The biggest and most enticing rabbit hole of them all it would seem is the belief in an empirically provable objective reality - the belief that 'progress' is the path of cementing an idea of objective reality until this perceived reality - a picture - becomes so solid, that nothing moves in it anymore.

Here it must now be said - all indulgence in any one rabbit hole to its extreme leads to fascism - promoting rigidity of concept.

This forces the creation of a timed event called a reset.

#philosophy #rant #reset #objectivity #thoughts

4 years ago in Deep Dives by montycashmusic

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shepz1 4 years ago

I will expand upon my reality. I fear nothing and take no notice of guidelines and rules. At any given time I really do have zero idea of what any new rules are.
I breeze through shops, streets and life staring at people in masks because someone on the TV said they had to wear one. They stare back because I am not wearing one.
Then I spend days taking no notice of them and they do the same to me.
I take no notice of police and they never bother me.
I see the masked ones wearing a mask under the nose and getting a fine.
I wear no mask and do not get fined?
This has been over 12 months now I go under the radar. Yet those that follow rules like fools rack up fines by the dozen.
Maybe we do make our own reality after all. Who knows!

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montycashmusic 4 years ago (edited)

The only way a future reality of fear can have a foothold is because we pay attention to the details of 'truth'.

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So many truthers argue that we need to always be on top of the truth to be in control. When the truth is a dark place - it is not to say that we don't look at it but rather we don't let it control our focus.

The path that we focus on is the path that lights up.

We acknowledge the truth but we focus on a reality we wish to be real.

I'm not talking about idle visualisation, I'm talking about active participation in enacting conscious perception.

Sometimes we need to step back from it all and say fuck it to really see what's going on.

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shepz1 4 years ago

Amen to that thought. Thank you.

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cryptoxicate 4 years ago

I think so, that everything is a perception of the moment or situation you are going through, what is in our mind is not necessarily so, and more if it involves third parties, they may be thinking something completely different from you.

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montycashmusic 4 years ago

In this vein of thought, reality is co-subjective at best and never objective.

We group into 'reality groups' called belief systems - this can be anything from belief in a fairy tale god who lives in the sky or belief in a 'scientifically provable objective reality'.

In groups we create reality. Alone we can create seeds that have potential to grow in a group environment. All human behaviour is governed by group behaviour.

The history of all cultures is the history of groups.

This may seem fundamental and obvious but often details are placed on assumed foundations of truth that were never there. We want solid communities - so we must be ready to state the obvious again and again - not in a patronising way but in a genuine desire to assist others to become their utmost.

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montycashmusic 4 years ago

A friend Julia gave me a response to the article via another medium:

Hmmm seems the themes to our Convo promted a wright up hey. Well done.. good to have an outlet of such contemplations.

In response I think of two things straight away.
The importance of having a shared reality that can prove to reassure and or provide a sense of realness to our reality wether it's only experienced internal, external or both.

And the razor edge of uncertainty, in all ways, worldly, collectively, personally and within the processes of perceiving and or experiencing the mind.
It's a slim line and vulnerable edge, the possibility to fall into the pits of madness once one has nothing real or solid to hold into is a mixture of liberating and dangerous.
The other side is a fixed authoritian type of delusion, suppressing life's intelligence and other parts of the whole to be received and add influence or value.

Walking the edge... governing our behaviour, understanding the threads of influence that weave into the manifestion of our lived Experience.
Having some sense of what I find to be meaningful or personally acceptable in a reality that altho phenomena in nature, is felt, seen and very real to the senses and will add to the infinite creation of evolution itself.

I'll post a talk here given by somone that I can relate to, from the various meditaional, shamanic and ordinary views
Of perception I have experienced.
Maybe you like it 🙏🏻😘

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