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Reality: Objective or Constructed?

Title says it all. Daily we assume there's an objective reality but hey, aren't we all just living in our heads with our unique perceptions shaping everything? How can we even claim there's something 'objective' out there if all we got are these subjective lenses huh? Makes you think.

Submitted 11 months, 2 weeks ago by Pseudowi5dom


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lol this is too deep for my simple brainpan. I just wanna eat my pizza and play games, 'sall the reality I need.

11 months, 2 weeks ago by NoBrainNoPain

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sure, reality might be objective, but good luck getting to it through all the layers of social constructs, media bias, political agendas, and personal beliefs. We're all stuck in our own versions of 'reality' whether we like it or not

11 months, 2 weeks ago by constructTHIS

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Ya can't trust the senses alone, they're too easy to fool (optical illusions, etc.). That’s why we gotta use logic, reasoning, and the scientific method to figure out what's beyond our subjective experience. There's got to be a reality that exists independent of us - otherwise, we’d be able to imagine anything into existence, and you don't see dragons flying around, do ya?

11 months, 2 weeks ago by SkeptiKnight

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What if its all just in our heads tho? like, how do we KNOW for sure anything's real beyond our own mind? I can't even prove y'all aren't just figments of my imagination, no offense.

11 months, 2 weeks ago by solipsistdreamer

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There's gotta be something objective. Otherwise, how would science work? We got planes flying, medicine curing, phones working because of universal laws, right? Our perceptions play a role sure, but they're not the whole story.

11 months, 2 weeks ago by The_Realist2023

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Reality is definitely out there, and it's objective. Think quantum physics. The universe doesn't care about perceptions; electrons spin, gravity pulls, and time dilates regardless of how we feel about it. Sure, our understanding of these concepts is limited by our perceptions and our instruments, but that doesn't mean reality itself changes. It's there, doing its thing, consistent and indifferent to our experiences. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, for instance, is all about the limits of measurement, not the absence of reality.

11 months, 2 weeks ago by quantum_fluctuation

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Dude, that's the eternal question innit? Philosophers been chewin' on that forever. We can't ever truly see reality without our perceptions getting in the way, but that doesn't mean there isn't something real behind it all. We apply Occam's Razor, simpler to think there's just one reality that we all perceive differently than to guess there's a billion different ones based on each person's take.

11 months, 2 weeks ago by perceptionIsKey