Questions tagged [reality]
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Is it possible to visualize higher dimensional space?
This might seem like a trivial question, but it may be more complicated than it seems. I'm wondering if it would be technically possible to visualize higher dimensional space. By that I mean seeing ...
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Does reality have axioms?
Mathematics is considered the queen of sciences as it allows us to build simplified but functional models of the reality that surrounds us.
However, I do not understand if this isomorphism could be ...
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Math Universe Hypothesis
Can someone please explain in simpler terms what does this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothesis, mean?
Does this mean tegmark says for example: humans have corresponding math ...
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Ref request: Reality objective or subjective
This is a request for a reference on (within) philosophy.stackexchange.com.
It follows from discussions around this question.
I am asking after having tried my luck at websearch.
What I am searching ...
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Does True Randomness actually exist? [duplicate]
I tend to think of randomness as a lack of complete information when it comes to knowing something. If we look at the history of probability theory it centers on a lack of knowing the exact outcome of ...
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Does Reality change when theory change?
I was going to include a caveat to prove a premise: to show that truth has become more subjective and then proceeding from older to newer theories of truth, I would cite a survey showing how ...
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Can we prove reality?
I heard someone make an assertion that 'We cannot really prove that there is reality.'.
'Reality' here would mean the universe and everything in it. You could look at an apple and think its an apple ...
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Have any thinkers applied empiricism to the dreaming and deep sleep states?
The Mandukya Upanishad is a philosophical text found in the Vedas, which are among the most important scriptures of Hinduism. Here is what V. Subrahmanya Iyer says in a foreword to a translation of ...
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Which branch combines solipsism and monism?
Which branch of philosophy whole-heartedly accepts (and builds upon) that only self exists (solipsism) and the universe is the part/creation of self (monism) by eliminating the possibility of ...
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Can we know anything about the "outside", if we are in a simulation?
Please note this question isn't about "simulation" as such. It is cast in this way to illustrate a particular sub-to-super ontology relationship:
Given that all we see or seem, are the product of ...
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Is objectivity necessary for anything beside communication?
By "subjective", I mean something that occurs only in a single mind and cannot be shared even in principle. A common example is pain. You cannot feel someone else's pain. You might observe ...
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How is knowledge possible?
I haven't studied Philosophy and I get this is a fundamental question one cannot answer in one line.
But I want to phrase it in this particular way: even in a finite possibilities-predetermined (few) ...
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What makes Humans different from a chemical computer?
Are we all robots? Is our DNA the 0's and 1's of computer code? Are we an advanced computer system, with instead of keyboard and mouse input... input from our senses. Our database being our brain ...
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What makes things real?
Suppose that a person can't sense anything. He can't see, hear, feel. Nothing. So for him, does anything even exist?
Does that mean only things we can sense are real or existent?
Also, how would you ...
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Does Einstein's local realism in quantum mechanics imply superdeterminism?
Einstein insisted that nature is locally real, which is also know as counterfactual defeniteness and means that results of experiments are predetermined. But, if everything is predetermined in every ...
