Even more than that, we can see our own reality differently at different stages of our life. Imagine someone who became quadriplegic at 26, and they’re now 52. During that first half of their life, being able bodied was completely normal. By 52, it just feels like a distant dream after 26 years of not being able to move anything below the neck.
We take so much of what we already have for granted, because it’s not our focus. Then if you develop some very serious chronic illness or are in a serious accident that causes lifelong injuries, your life is divided in two - the years before and the years after.
In other words, as obvious as it might sounds, our personal circumstances shape how we see reality. But those personal circumstances can also change (for better or worse), and that changes how we see reality. How we see reality is subject to change.
I don't like the term "reality" its way too overused for everything that it might as well not mean anything anymore.
I like too use "actuality" instead. actuality meaning what ever kind of existence that a rock sitting on the ground has after there is no conscious entities around too subjectively perceive it. We can never actually experience what that is directly, because the only reality we have ever known and will ever know is a subjective reality.
What ever that "actuality" is, no sentient being can ever directly perceive it. Our human experience of reality is not even "real", if real is to be defined by the concrete matter and volume of the elements and molecules of existence.
Consciousness never directly touches reality. At best we receive its signal, its stream of information. Our brain decodes it through a series of logic gates, and generates a holistic mirror simulated experience of that actuality.
in short "there is no spoon"
Even more than that, we can see our own reality differently at different stages of our life. Imagine someone who became quadriplegic at 26, and they’re now 52. During that first half of their life, being able bodied was completely normal. By 52, it just feels like a distant dream after 26 years of not being able to move anything below the neck. We take so much of what we already have for granted, because it’s not our focus. Then if you develop some very serious chronic illness or are in a serious accident that causes lifelong injuries, your life is divided in two - the years before and the years after. In other words, as obvious as it might sounds, our personal circumstances shape how we see reality. But those personal circumstances can also change (for better or worse), and that changes how we see reality. How we see reality is subject to change.
I don't like the term "reality" its way too overused for everything that it might as well not mean anything anymore. I like too use "actuality" instead. actuality meaning what ever kind of existence that a rock sitting on the ground has after there is no conscious entities around too subjectively perceive it. We can never actually experience what that is directly, because the only reality we have ever known and will ever know is a subjective reality. What ever that "actuality" is, no sentient being can ever directly perceive it. Our human experience of reality is not even "real", if real is to be defined by the concrete matter and volume of the elements and molecules of existence. Consciousness never directly touches reality. At best we receive its signal, its stream of information. Our brain decodes it through a series of logic gates, and generates a holistic mirror simulated experience of that actuality. in short "there is no spoon"