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Define "real"

• dimitrios1 6y ago
  define "define"
  • potiuper 6y ago
    From end.
  • guerrilla 6y ago
    Interesting[1] but off topic. Definitions were not discussed in the article but asking whether something is real or not without clear criteria is foolish. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/definitions/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/definitions/
• ejolto 6y ago
  If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. - Morpheus
  • dimitrios1 6y ago
    So my DMT trips were real?
• Aeronwen 6y ago
  "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." --PKD
• deleted 6y ago
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• RichardCA 6y ago
  If the Earth were destroyed in some sort of cataclysmic event and all humans were gone, what would remain? What would still be true about the universe? To put it another way, if we are not the only scientifically capable species, would a different species discover different physics? How different? Would there be at least some ideas that overlap? These topics get explored in science fiction. Carl Sagan and James Burke also wrote quite a bit about how humans discover new ideas and suddenly the universe changes. But if you think these ideas are so abstract as to be meaningless, then there is no question to pose, and nothing to discuss.