Question 2: Do we construct reality? If not, does our understand of reality reflect reality as it is?
In most senses, I do not think that we construct reality. I think that we do in some ways, we do construct our own reality. We often alter events and happenings of our lives to be something different. We mentally construct things to be in our individual perception of reality when those things are not there in the consensus reality, and we mental deconstruct things to be not in our individual perception of reality when those things are there in the consensus reality. Of course, that it not say the the consensus reality could not consist of many mentally constructed things. As I mentioned in a previous post, I think rather than construct our reality, we tend to bastardize it; we impose upon it our limitations and our personal perceptions. Perhaps the moon is truly of a second spatial dimensional nature, and all of humanity imposes upon it their limitation of third spatial dimension understanding.
I suppose this is what I think:
Individual thoughts match individual perceptions which may or may not match consensus perception which may or may not match reality, if such a thing exists. I suppose that for reasons of pragmatism, we ought to assume that consensus perceptions generally match reality, or at least work towards matching reality. I think it still important to not neglect the fact that we have intense limitation, and that we should work to lessen those limitations.
What do you think?
No comments:
Post a Comment