- 09 Mar 2017 12:49
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I like to throw in a new thought on the Agora forum every so often to get people's creative imagination going. This can be this weeks notion.
Have you ever thought about what life is? It is amazing to think just how artificial the world is when you consider everything. Think about it. An atom is 99.9% empty space. If we were to only see how the world is like in the form of electronic, protons and neutrons, we would only be a faint ghostly figure and we would hardly be visible at all. And atoms have no colour. What we actually see is the light waves rebounding back from the object itself rather than the object itself having colour. So our brains literally make things up for us. We see a universe that is in essence fictional, or to put it another way, a certain form of reality. And don't get me started on optical illusions that can literally make up an entire false reality. So is our brains nothing more than our own personal Matrix?
And now to my point. Can we trust or eyes, or in fact our senses in general when determining reality? Perhaps we can in the world we know and understand, but what about the things we don't yet fully understand like quantum mechanics or astrophysics? Perhaps we will never fully understand everything our universe has to offer because our senses won't allow it. Maybe you could create artificial senses, however even then, our senses are required to process the information and maybe that isn't possible, even with an artificial aide. So are we destined to never understand everything?
Have you ever thought about what life is? It is amazing to think just how artificial the world is when you consider everything. Think about it. An atom is 99.9% empty space. If we were to only see how the world is like in the form of electronic, protons and neutrons, we would only be a faint ghostly figure and we would hardly be visible at all. And atoms have no colour. What we actually see is the light waves rebounding back from the object itself rather than the object itself having colour. So our brains literally make things up for us. We see a universe that is in essence fictional, or to put it another way, a certain form of reality. And don't get me started on optical illusions that can literally make up an entire false reality. So is our brains nothing more than our own personal Matrix?
And now to my point. Can we trust or eyes, or in fact our senses in general when determining reality? Perhaps we can in the world we know and understand, but what about the things we don't yet fully understand like quantum mechanics or astrophysics? Perhaps we will never fully understand everything our universe has to offer because our senses won't allow it. Maybe you could create artificial senses, however even then, our senses are required to process the information and maybe that isn't possible, even with an artificial aide. So are we destined to never understand everything?