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Reality Is Unrealistic, Take 1
"Reality” may just be a boundary we can’t see past.
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Reality is constructed in real time through emotions, assumptions, timing, fear, bias, memory, noise, and ego.
Reality isn’t a fact. It’s a negotiation. It's a mirror. Everyone sees their own reflection. And everyone is convinced that their reflection is the actual room.
Reality is a feeling. Concreteness and palpability are qualities of experience, not of the abstraction you call the “material world.” This realm is real not despite being in mind, but because it is in mind.’
Bernardo Kastrup • More Than Allegory
LIFE IS NOT as it appears. As neuroscientist Professor Chris Frith writes, ‘our perception of the world is a fantasy that collides with reality’. The dream state we exist in is founded on objective truth – we’re alive on a planet, breathing air under skies. But on these foundations we build an infinite variety of imaginary games.
Will Storr • The Status Game
The creation of a new reality is centered on three tenets: narrative, curation, and repetition.
A story is how we navigate the ambiguity of our environment, how we make sense of the world. It’s the promised land, a vision worth aspiring to, or a reading of the world worth attaching to. A story either inspires us to make a future destination our hom... See more
A story is how we navigate the ambiguity of our environment, how we make sense of the world. It’s the promised land, a vision worth aspiring to, or a reading of the world worth attaching to. A story either inspires us to make a future destination our hom... See more