We Have Senses for Input of Reality, Trust Them
Use our senses to understand the reality we live in, and get grounded in the reality we live in!
Some people want to try to deny the senses as valid inputs from reality. As if any other fantasy idea they invent in their imagination can compete with reality, since there is "no objective reality" given their claim that they can't trust their senses.
Taking in something with the 5 senses induces aspects of reality into our consciousness. If you can’t trust your 5 senses then you can’t trust anything. The 5 senses must be trusted and used more exhaustively to provide more data points of input from reality. This permits more points of reference to reality in order to discern reality more accurately.
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We should not be so foolish as to think we can abandon our senses as unreliable. We need more data points to create more correspondences and abstract knowledge from reality.
The only way to prove something exists 100% for sure without much thinking, is to point at it as ostensive proof. It is right there in our vision for us to plainly see. Showing someone else that something exists allows them to see it for themselves, either literally seeing something in front of you or seeing something in your mental vision.
True, some things may be optical illusions, but not most things. These optical illusions are created from existing aspects of reality that deceive and appear as something else due to a limited perspective which limits our ability to perceive, conceive, understand and navigate reality.
Ex: You point to something red to demonstrate the existence of red.
We can’t describe the color red other than in a relative description with other correlated aspects of reality, i.e. it’s a primary color that is not blue or yellow, and hence it is red, but we still need to know blue and yellow and what primary colors are. We started with the general of colors, and deduced down to a specific red. Orange can also be deduced from red. Red can also be described in terms no one will understand, as the 620–740 nm frequency range of light.
To understand the aspects of reality that really matter (truth, morality, wisdom of right-action, etc.), you don’t need to know anything about quantum physics, or any other branch of knowledge brought about through technological means.
All you need are your senses to understand the reality we live in. Understanding quantum physics isn’t important in terms of creating a better, more just, free, peaceful, abundant world. Morality is what is, always has been and forever will be the most important things to understand.
Senses show a specific reality, of a specific frequency we light, sound, etc. that we can perceive. There is a reason we exist and operate in this range. We wouldn't exist if we lived at the quantum level, because that is not existence in reality, that is essentially unreality as we know it.
These senses we have are what we need, what we depend upon to interface with reality. All the technology is a bonus, but also a distraction.
How far has man progressed morally with all the technology? Not very far. We haven't moved much in the moral dimension, compared to the technological dimension. Technology has no direct corollary to morality in a positive or negative sense, but tends towards the negative when morality and reality is not understood properly.
If we learn foundational principles of truth first, then technology can help us facilitate moral living to greater degrees of actuality. Senses are what we have, they are the given innate tools and they do great. Knowledge of how senses work and our processing of sensory inputs allows people to manipulate us with that knowledge while we are ignorant.
Probe deeper and you will find more knowledge and uncover more that the senses can't see directly upon a first impression. More data is required to abstract. This is how we get to universal general concepts from the particular individual objects we see in reality. The universals manifest through the particulars. We can see 'red' itself, but we don't see 'color' itself. One is a specific, particular, and exists by seeing it, and the other is general, universal, and exists not be simply seeing it.
Senses give us the information of what is around us. They relay information about reality. The interpretation we have is what deceives us. The perception can fool us.
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Infrared light, dog whistles, higher and lower frequencies of sound and light exist. We can detect them with technological instruments, but not with our designed human eye or ear because we are designed for specific frequency reception.
Those other aspects of reality are not required for our immediate evolution in consciousness towards morality and living without creating evil.
We were given the tools we need to discern reality correctly and navigate it to create true freedom and peace.
Some people et lost in technological conclusions and don't use their own external senses or the powerful internal one of consciousness.
“Everything is energy (quantum), so everything is the same at the fundamental level, there are no morals now! Wo0ho0!”
Wake up. Technology can help to facilitate learning by providing mechanisms for doing so (computers, internet) as well as mechanisms that can reduce the labor required to sustain basic survival, which would allow for the pursuits of truth and maintaining morality. First, start with the senses, then improve upon them with tech as needed.
Always remember the basic detectors we are born with: our senses.
Some people let technological data override objective reality (a la quantum woo gobbledygook).
It is all done through belief.
People read what others say, and believe it. It doesn’t have to be true. There are experiments with technology, and then there are interpretations of the data. Anyone can provide any interpretation, tell others this is the way it is, and then people will believe them. People are fooled all the time, not thinking properly for themselves, not digging deep enough into the data and info of objective reality.
They prefer to create unreality in their minds and believe it as truth, because it “sounds good” or “feels-good” to them, it “resonates” as true. People get lost in the land of bullshit interpretations and take them as “facts” of reality. They have not even developed a grounded understanding of reality and simply fall for manipulations, either intentional or mistaken deceptions on the parts of those delivering these messages.
Step away from the fantasy and wonder, and get grounded in the firm, solid foundational truth of reality we can come to know with greater attention to ourselves and reality.
People are getting lost in the minutia of technological detail and information overload. They do not have firm grounding in the reality we live in without the use of technology to do the thinking and detecting for them. Evolve Consciousness. Wake up people. Learn to use the tools you were born with. Stop relying on technology so much.
Get out of the clouds and denial of reality by denying the senses, and get grounded in reality!
In the end, if you really believe the nonsense that you can't trust your senses where it starts, then you can't trust a damn thing. How's that for a deluded worldview?
@krnel
2016-12-17, 6:45pm
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Awesome. Thanks!!
I've been working out similar thoughts myself. There seems to be a long term goal of convincing people that they are less than and more than they are. We are supposed to be just animals with a bigger brain, or we are a complex of social interactions that present as an illusion of consciousness. The same people that tell us we are nothing more than the biochemical reactions in our brain tell us that we are what our culture makes us.
Anything but the simple reality.
I've followed the discussion that our senses "were evolved to disguise reality from us" with a sense of humor and bewilderment. How can people let themselves believe two opposite things at the same time, especially when both of them controvert the evidence of our own experience?
And even if it is all true, it's all nothing but a curiosity. We find that people respond as if they have free will, we relate to people as if they are actual persons and not "the illusion of self". None of it, even if true, matters as much as what we experience.
<How can people let themselves believe two opposite things at the same time, especially when both of them controvert the evidence of our own experience?>
compartmentalization of their minds.
it's a religious thing.
Thanks for the feedback. Indeed, we are both and many things, animals, more brain complexity and consciousness power, social. Consciousness/self is not an illusion simply because it's not a thing in itself that can be studied in itself through measurement of some kind. It's an emergent property from having a brain. People should really study more philosophical categorization like philosophical metaphysics.
Our senses can be tricked and most likely currently are right now https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@cryplectibles/are-we-living-in-a-simulation
airplane pilots say "trust your instrument" with good reason.
those that survive do.