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1434122 No.1434122 [Reply] [Original]

Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be.
When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its experience begins to be formed, thus becoming real.

What if the World is populated mostly by mental patients? Can we then bend Reality?

>> No.1434129

Are you seriously trying to convince me the world isn't populated by mental patients?.....turn on the News dude

>> No.1434142

>>1434129
>implying the crazy shit shown on the news is indicative of everyday life for most people and isn't just shown to get ratings

And no OP, we can't bend your definition of reality just by agreeing to think in a certain way.

>> No.1434151

It's bent, it's bending, it never bent, it never will.

>> No.1434167

1 The world is everything that is the case.
1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

-Wittgenstein

>> No.1434178

NO
Multiples of Subjective reality DO NOT make objective reality.
Never.
The brain can not alter the physical world.

>> No.1434185

>>1434178
>The brain can not alter the physical world
citation?

>> No.1434188

Before Galileo, people believed the Earth is the center of the Universe and that is the reality back then.

>> No.1434189

>>1434178
How does one obtain an objective perspective? Post-positivism is just a collection of subjective viewpoints.

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1434191

>>1434122
>When two or more individuals agree upon the interpretation and experience of a particular event, a consensus about an event and its experience begins to be formed, thus becoming real.

Me and my friend just agreed that you are a faggot who just killed himself!
ARE YOU DEAD YET?

>> No.1434243

>>1434191
OP here. Im in a room here with 12 people who believe Im still alive.