What is Reality?

[Wise Fool]

Is there anything else? Or is Reality the only thing which is complete unto itself?

[James Arryn]

It's blue.

[sologdin]

fairly certain that we regularly and with significance refer to supplementals such as unreality, surreality, irreality, and so on. the allegation that reality is complete unto itself is accordingly denied.

[drawkcabi]

It's something we need to accept to function. Something some of would like to avoid if we could.

[Gears of the Beast]

Reality is the set of all things that exist. By definition there is nothing else. If you say that something exists you are saying that it manifests in reality. If you're positing that something exists outside of reality I don't know how you'd demonstrate a distinction between that thing and something that does not exist.

[James Arryn]

fairly certain that we regularly and with significance refer to supplementals such as unreality, surreality, irreality, and so on. the allegation that reality is complete unto itself is accordingly denied.

But reality is colonial.

[Eyron]

There are real things happening without our current perception or intelligence. So, not sure what you mean OP?

[Wise Fool]

fairly certain that we regularly and with significance refer to supplementals such as unreality, surreality, irreality, and so on. the allegation that reality is complete unto itself is accordingly denied.

But surreality and unreality are merely aspects of reality. Sensations or psychological qualities, if I remember right. What is truly outside or separate from Reality and how can that be?

[Larry of the Lawn]

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

[Eyron]

We can only know that for every known set of reality, there is an infinite unknown set of realities.

[Larry of the Lawn]

Well that's just like, your opinion, man.

[Eyron]

What up dude, get the infinity down yo.

[Wise Fool]

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

Hahaha, I love it.

[Ramsay Gimp]

What you make of it.

[Wise Fool]

Reality, then, is awareness, and when you gaze into the abyss, you yourself are the abyss gazing at itself. Consciousness is the mirror in which reality looks. The absolute totality is incomprehensible except when differentiated, hence it is differentiated, so it can be (partly) understood. The same way that one cannot receive, store or process all the information that the senses are able to detect consciously, hence it must be conceived by a higher consciousness in order to continue. A common mistake is to think the total is the sum of all parts, and that reality is a vast collection of things; when in actuality, all things are merely aspects of a contiguous reality, roles that said reality is playing. So there are, and are not, things.

[sologdin]

But reality is colonial.

like! derridean supplementation as an imperial relation. must cogitate.

[all swedes are racist]

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

Heh, nice

[ThinkerX]

There is reality.

Then there is our sense limited perception of reality. Because of this our knowledge of reality is automatically one step removed, and therefor limited or incomplete or flawed.

[Ser Scot A Ellison]

GotB,

Reality is the set of all things that exist. By definition there is nothing else. If you say that something exists you are saying that it manifests in reality. If you're positing that something exists outside of reality I don't know how you'd demonstrate a distinction between that thing and something that does not exist.

Agreed. But our inability to percive something does not mean that what we cannot perceive does not exist.

[Wise Fool]

There is reality.

Then there is our sense limited perception of reality. Because of this our knowledge of reality is automatically one step removed, and therefor limited or incomplete or flawed.

Yes. And because our knowledge is itself limited by memory, whether wetware or hardware, either way there cannot be enough of it. Nevertheless, we can be aware of reality, and therefore self-aware, and if you're clever you can catch yourself doing it.