Is reality just our brain

Discussion in 'Mind Games' started by Kamran, Nov 5, 2010.

  1. Kamran

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    making sense of what we know? Could we be in all the universes and dimensions at the same time but since we think that's impossible we just see things as normal because that's what our brain says?

    What the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!? :sunny:
     
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    I travel space and time with my trusty companion .. My dog..

    some day, when youre not busy. take your pet outside on a clear night under the stars.. hold your pet up to your eye level and look with them,.. Then ask them "to call their star ship"..


    youll see, and if it didnt see it, its because you didnt believe in it enough.. :D
     
  3. Kamran

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    I don't have a pet so the joke is on you :devil:

    :p
     
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    you can always pretend, using your fingers. ...
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  5. thedope

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    I bet there are things you pet.
     
  6. Kamran

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    Yeah, like Jeff, Joe, Jill, James and John are gonna' have star ships.
     
  7. Kamran

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    Does this bet involve petting?
     
  8. thedope

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    Or otherwise vetting.
     
  9. Kamran

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    What're you getting at?
     
  10. thedope

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    We believe to see, and see to believe.
     
  11. I remember reading somewhere once that our brain filters out some really large percentage of what is actually seen...something like 80+ %.

    But I'm not sure how anybody would actually know this. From my perspective, there's no way of telling what reality actually is. We have no means of knowing what we're capable of knowing. If there is knowledge at all, it is being; to be is to know.
     
  12. thedope

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    Knowledge is, being shared.
     
  13. Kamran

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    It's strange how we say schizophrenic people are hearing fake voices but if we say "Seeing is believing" then it actually means they're real to them. Maybe because we don't hear them they don't exist to us.

    You don't know if the cat in the box is dead or alive if you don't know that there's a cat.
     
  14. zombiewolf

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    Our brain provides us a only partial description of reality, at least enough to help us avoid falling in holes and bumping into things...then somehow enough to communicate and gain consensus on such abstract concepts as musical sound, for instance.

    ZW
     
  15. Mr.Writer

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    Quote bomb

    watts lsd tr :cool:

     
  16. Sir-.-'nOOBalloT

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    This makes me think what's more real an repetitive phenomena or enigma of a phenomena
     
  17. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Apparently the sky is the colour it is to us only because of the way our vision is set up, it is different colours to different animals

    Or imagine how different you perspective would be if you only saw in grayscale like some, actually I think most do

    Or imagine how different your perspective would be if you could hear higher pitches. We see a dog chase a passing car and think its funny, to the dog he can hear the high pitch sounds of the pistons and it really pisses him off
     
  18. thedope

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    Form is defined by negative space.
     
  19. Everything is a cartoonish abstraction that only seems mundane because it's all we're accustomed to.
     
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