Ask yourself, is this world real?
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If you think this problem is nonsense, then there is no problem with your mental state. If you think this problem is not a problem at all, then you probably won't have much problem. If you not only think this is a problem, but also think deeply, and even lose your appetite because of this, then I suggest you go to the hospital for examination.
gets back to the topic. What we are talking about today is "reality" . Similarly, we still use the perspective of dualism . Generally speaking, we humans will not use our consciousness to doubt the body, nor will we use our body to doubt the consciousness. For most people in the world, they never consider the relationship between consciousness and body.
It is precisely because of this that human society has been able to shift from endless thinking to real practical practice. Only when the mainstream in human society is realistic and put into practice can civilization bear fruit.
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and entangled in those "stupid problems" that are not connected with reality and do not affect practice. It will only make you waste your time painfully while thinking. This pain is the bitterness of consciously chewing on the unknown and despairing. Philosophers are also prone to getting lost in their searches again and again.
So there is such a thing in these stupid questions - a sense of reality. Even three-year-olds will have a vague impression of the reality. Because we have been dealing with this material real world since the day we were born. There was no Internet 100 years ago, and people could only imagine the world through calligraphy, painting and novels. Today, the birth of two-dimensional screens has turned fantasy into both sound and color.
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so, the question of realism was mentioned again. Although not many people care about this issue. Because this world is real. We don't question the thing we are thinking about, just as we don't question the world we live in. The walls are real, the sofas are real, and the coffee table is real. They have mass, they have tangents, and they can not only be perceived, but also experienced.
But why do we think this is real?
This problem is too unsolvable. Fortunately, almost not many people will hold on to this "why". What we think of the world is not just a simple 3D model, because when we understand the world, we have embedded cultural habits. No one can really know what the objective world looks like, because humans only have the subjective way of knowing the world.
Subjective cognition processes part of the objective world and returns it to the brain, thus forming a "I think the objective world." When our brains send us electrical signals of our understanding of the world, we never thought about whether we would question the reality of the world. Everything is based on the reality of the world.
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people can lie, but the objective world won't. people are full of doubts about people, but why do people doubt the world? People have no reason to doubt the objective world. So, the world does not need any proof, it is real in itself. Our facial features are feeding this truth to our brains. Why can’t I answer
? Is there a possibility that the world is actually a box? Or it is a large-scale game where everyone is in it, but it is just the sand and stones in it, giving everyone a real experience to find out the truth.
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However, the truth is no longer important. What is important is how we spend the reality of the present. loses the sense of reality, in fact, it is not the loss of reality, but the use of the fantasy world of loss of reality to our consciousness in our experience.
The world has never lost its reality from beginning to end, and we feel a sense of loss of reality from cognitive tools. And that is just a more secretive and higher-level appearance.
