A plant has its reality. It's root has to go to earth to get nutrients and water, its stems and leaves absorb light and the efforts turn into energy. Then it lives and survives. Different plants have different realities. So are different species.
Humans also have their reality: That they have to have a physical body that goes thru birth, growth, sickness and death. Their perceived reality is what they see, smell, hear and taste or more abstractly fame, money, pride, etc. Overall, reality are things and feelings that they perceive when they are "awake". Their dreams do not count even though they have vivid experience and even though they can travel to places by just thinking of it, but when they wake up, they call it an illusion.
From above we already see that
1) Realities are different from specie to specie. Humans are one of the species living in a confined space (earth), so their reality can not be the reality of all species
2) Realities change even within the human race with time. Today's reality of being able to talk via video to someone in China while walking in street of Paris was an illusion, a dream or an idea a thousand years ago. With better comprehension of nature's law, we have turned many illustions into realities already. Yesterday's reality of the suspended gardens of Babylone only exists in legend and imagination. The physical reality has disappeared.
3) Realities change with space. The reality on earth is not the reality on Mars.
So is there a bigger, truer, wider, eternal universal reality that governs all things in existance? That's where science meets religion. The thought of it is mesmerizing!
My attitude: Keep an open mind. Admit that there are things exist that I don't know or humans don't know now. Keep exploring and enjoying the journey.
Humans also have their reality: That they have to have a physical body that goes thru birth, growth, sickness and death. Their perceived reality is what they see, smell, hear and taste or more abstractly fame, money, pride, etc. Overall, reality are things and feelings that they perceive when they are "awake". Their dreams do not count even though they have vivid experience and even though they can travel to places by just thinking of it, but when they wake up, they call it an illusion.
From above we already see that
1) Realities are different from specie to specie. Humans are one of the species living in a confined space (earth), so their reality can not be the reality of all species
2) Realities change even within the human race with time. Today's reality of being able to talk via video to someone in China while walking in street of Paris was an illusion, a dream or an idea a thousand years ago. With better comprehension of nature's law, we have turned many illustions into realities already. Yesterday's reality of the suspended gardens of Babylone only exists in legend and imagination. The physical reality has disappeared.
3) Realities change with space. The reality on earth is not the reality on Mars.
So is there a bigger, truer, wider, eternal universal reality that governs all things in existance? That's where science meets religion. The thought of it is mesmerizing!
My attitude: Keep an open mind. Admit that there are things exist that I don't know or humans don't know now. Keep exploring and enjoying the journey.
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