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(5) But the Real is much more than this “reality”! The real refers to the endlessly changing stream of life, “the unbroken wholeness,” to use Physicist David Bohm’s wonderful expression, out of which everything comes, including the Planet we all share. As the Manifesto puts it, the real is characterized by radical open-endedness and becoming. In

Arturo Escobar • Welcome to Possibility Studies

Truth trumps narrative. You can temporarily rally people around what sounds good, but reality eventually imposes its verdict.

"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

Everything that is real is true, by definition, nevertheless some perceptions of the real have a greater truth content than others, and they’re not necessarily the most optimistic.

John Lambert • Yoga

Real possibility, however, is a potentiality that is live precisely because it is rooted in the material here and now (unlike either faux or formal possibilities). Importantly, real possibility can open onto the past just as much as onto the future. The present has the potential to be curiously disrupted along both its edges: the “forward-dawning”

Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett • Curiosity and Networks of Possibility

Reality is that which does not go away when you start a private group chat disagreeing with it

Venkatesh Rao on Substack

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

Reality is thus not a hypothetical ultimate unknowable entity; it is that about which we do learn and know.

Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science

(A compelling case could be made that there is no such thing as a capital-R Reality, and really there are billions of different realities depending on your point of view. And that composite view is itself just another interpretation. All interpretations are wrong, some are useful, some will ruin your life.)

It’s worth noting that while there may be... See more