Reality

[andrewducker]

Trying again, because the previous wording was causing problems.

[Poll #157777]

Edit: I'd be interested in justifications for (3) from anyone that voted that way.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Oh goodness yes, you're right. It's the perceptions that matter.

But I still believe there is an objective reality underlying things, otherwise my subjkective reality would look nothing like yours...

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

i suppose. but then, you could be part of my subjective brain thoguths. you might not exist. i might be imagining all of this. i might not exist. you might be imagining all this.

and how do you know what i see as yellow you see as yellow (for example)? maybe what i see as yellow you see as blue or some other colour i have no word for because it doesn't exist. maybe how i see is how you smell. myabe what i think of as three dimensional you see s two dimensional?

[andrewducker]

Yup, but even if you are imagining all of this, there's still something which is 'you' and that exists. It's just that your perceptions are subjective and easily subverted.

"Subverted" - I love that word.