Reality...

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

..What does it taste like? Seriously.

I'm told we're all made of string or something.
Others rtell mme that we're all just waves and shit.
How much sense does that make?
Surely we're all just whatever we make of ourselves?
Why did I start ths thread ?

[mistermack]

I think reality is different, for each individual. It's pretty irrelevant that I'm made up of a vast quantity of energy, turned into matter by whizzing around in circles in perpetual motion.
I can't feel any of that, so it might as well not exist, unless you're a particle physicist, and that's your thing.
Reality for me is what I go through day to day. The rest of the universe might just as well not exist.

[FBM]

An excerpt from something I'm reading now about the nature and relationship of the individual to society and the larger universe:

John Dewey, again in The Public and Its Problems makes a similar point: in the quote following Dewey comments on the course of the "unreal" problem of the relation of individuals to societies:

"Because an individual can be disassociated from this, that and the other grouping, since he need not be married, or be a church-member or a voter, or belong to a club or scientific organization; there grows up in the mind an image of a residual individual who is not a member of any association at all. From this premise, and from this only, there develops the unreal question (my emphasis) of how individuals come to be united in societies and groups."

Dewey, in the same work, summarizes one significant criticism of the atomistic view:

"From another point of view, we have to qualify our approximate notion of an individual as being that which acts and moves as a unitary thing. We have to consider not only its connections and ties, but the consequences with respect to which it acts and moves. We are compelled to say that for some purposes, for some results, the tree is the individual, for others the cell, and for a third, the forest or the landscape. Is a book or a leaf or a folio or a paragraph, or a printer's em the individual? Is the binding or the contained thought that which gives individual unity to a book? Or are all of these things definers of an individual according to the consequences which are relevant in a particular situation? Unless we betake ourselves to the stock resort of common sense, dismissing all questions as useless quibbles, it seems as if we could not determine an individual without reference to differences made as well as to antecedent and contemporary connections. If so, an individual, whatever else it is or not, is not just the spatially isolated thing our imagination inclines to take it to be."

[Xamonas Chegwé]

if you see a particle, be sure to wave.

[FBM]

But keep in mind that there'll be strings attached to that wave.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

But keep in mind that there'll be strings attached to that wave.

...tied to a planck.

[FBM]

But keep in mind that there'll be strings attached to that wave.

...tied to a planck.

Constantly.

[pErvinalia]

edit: cynical response redacted...

[laklak]

Physics puns are bohring.

[JimC]

...is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol in the bloodstream...

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Uuuurrrghh...

[cronus]

....reality is what happens when you squeeze a entire universe into a human body. Something gotta give sometime, methinks. Ain't gonna be pretty when it does.

[rainbow]

There is no Objective Reality, unless God.