Was is real? Is there reality left? What stays?

Tell me what makes something real, something that will stay the course of time and examination. Isn't everything that we think not nonreal? To be honest, I'm heading for bed. Being tired is real enough.

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deadgerbil · 22-25

Kinda hard to find out since we are limited by our senses. Lots of stuff is real that previous humans had no idea existed bc they couldn't perceive it.

val70 · 51-55

@deadgerbil Yes, preception. Is reality out there not part of yourself all along? What we create isn't what we do see but what we can think.

deadgerbil · 22-25

@val70 yup. And when something is wrong with us, that reality changes. Like with brain injuries, extremely real things can be thrown into question. And even if the brain isn't injured, we're still limited by it in how it evolved, etc. It evolved to make sense of environments like Sub-Saharan africa, not mysterious stuff in space, etc.

val70 · 51-55

@deadgerbil Exactly. One hitch in the brain's normal functioning and bingo there's a totally new reality yet again. From what there is in size of brain to what there actually can come about with the malfunctioning brain. The brain of a Neanderthaler was indeed different to us, but then again amongst human beings today there could be some who have a residue of that Neanderthaler brain.