Religion
In reply to the discussion: Science has proved the existence of God [View all]DetlefK
(16,670 posts)If you are awake, is that reality?
If you are dreaming, is that reality?
When one person believes that something is real and the other person doesn't believe it, is it then real or not?
When both believe that it is real, is it then real?
When everybody except one person believes that it is real, is it then real or not?
I do not believe that we are capable of experiencing a true reality: Our consciousness is just a program running inside the hardware that is our brain. (Speculations whether there are supernatural souls and how many souls exactly one human has aside.) Our consciousness only receives information received by our limited sensoric organs, which is then filled with extrapolations and assumptions, and then used to build an image of the world inside the program.
Did you know that your eyes can only see colors at the center of the field-of-view? They see the edges in black&white. But that's no problem because your brain has filters that fill in the missing information based on memory and guess-work.