How Do We Know What Is Real?

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Why you shouldn't just believe everything you think

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.Philosophers have long wrestled with the question of whether or how it is possible to really know external reality. We sentient creatures are utterly dependent on our subjective perceptions and are trapped within our minds—within our brains.

On the other hand, we find our subjective perceptions arrestingly compelling, not appreciating how highly unreliable they can be. It can be very hard to convince people that their experiences are 'in here,' not 'out there.'As a psychiatrist, I routinely hear about all sorts of unusual perceptual experiences, and not just from people who are. A wide variety of abnormal conditions as well as a great many normal but misinterpreted phenomena can cause distorted perceptions.

And yet we find our own subjective perceptions so persuasive that we are more willing to doubt the laws of physics than to doubt our own minds. We can’t help assuming that perception equals reality. People underestimate the capacity of our brains to create their own convincing realities.

Intuition is greatly valued these days. You are advised to “trust your gut.” To be sure, intuition is often helpful, having been honed by evolution and personal experience. Trained intuition, such as that acquired by a specialist in their professional field over years of experience, can be especially helpful, and is very often accurate.

Cold hard objective data must be the ultimate arbiter when evidence obtained through rigorous scientific methodology contradicts our intuitions.

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tonyshoey Thanks for this. A good read. Well I haven’t actually finished it all but half way through and promising.

nor should you believe everything you see.

Why's you guys pull GadSaad article?

if I think I'm right I'm right

medical91 Very few people can really handle such truth.

Sounds familiar? whitburnphilos1

Perception is far more important to us than reality. We see the world as we are, not as it is.😔

There's a fine line between fantasy and conspiracy too. Such as 'Joe Biden is the president elect'; No he is not. The electoral college has not voted (and will not vote until next month) and Donald Trump has not conceded. You need one of those two things to happen and neither has

Interesting read

I know. TheMatrix already covered this.

A philosophical question

I’ve learned not to believe anything I think and trust 100% in everything I feel. It makes for a much easier and less tiring human experience. Trust your intuition, it’s there to guide you and will do so better than any thought your brain can bring into the mix 👌🏼

Thoughts are just thoughts, they only become real once we validate them and assign them reality, whether real or not (usually not). It is this validation of thoughts that create feelings that eventually lead to emotional reactions and distress.

I pinch my left elbow every hour on the hour to remind myself I’m alive

Seriously, these tweets are very convicting. Grrr!

Now this is a cool article!

Morgellons is real.

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