Quote Originally Posted by Reefer Rogue
I believe reality to exist independantly of humanity.
Well... its a belief shared by many... but its only a belief. I think we will never know for sure if its so or not , because we only percieve reality through our "human-ness", we only percieve the reality as human beings. As there is no way to abandon our human-ness to percieve the reality, there is no way to know for sure if the reality we percieve as humans depends or not of our human condition.



PS. Ok... don Juan teached Castaneda how to percieve the world like a crow does, but i think most people wont even believe or concieve that its possible... so i think this fact is not of much use here...
Coelho Reviewed by Coelho on . Your definition of existence and reality? in your opinion, what is the definition of existance? how can something be said to "exist", or be said to be "real"? what are the qualities of something you perceive as "real"? in my opinion, if you say that that something is real if you can taste it, if you can touch it, if you can see it, then your definition of reality is merely the signals you interpriet with your brain, and therefore coulden't your whole reality be a fabrication, isn't that possible? nay, probable? anyway, don't get Rating: 5