Reality – a Matter of Perception?

             Many scientists, and also common people, have tried to find out what reality is. And when they reached a conclusion, they tried to explain it to us in the most understandable way possible. In any common dictionary we can find the word "reality" explained as "the quality of being real", or "one's true personal situation", or "the real world contrasted with one's ideals and illusions", or "a thing that is experienced or seen".
             These definitions don't help us at all understand reality, because I think they diminish the true value of reality, the possibilities they offer us are very few, or, better said, we can call reality everything we perceive as existing, and that's very little knowledge compared to the infinity that surrounds us (time, space).
             We can perceive reality using our senses, which means that we filter everything through only five channels, only five ways of getting in touch with everything around us, the sixth sense – the intuition – is not an accurate sense (at least not yet), not to mention that every human being has a different "amount" of intuition. This leads us to think that human mind is capable to reach only an infinitely small part of this endless universe, so, after all, reality may be a matter of species. Maybe the human races' amount of knowledge is as small as our planet compared to the universe.
             The human brain is directing all our senses, and when it receives electrical impulses from external factors, it compares the data with our past experience. So, that's how we perceive a thing as being real or not, at the present stage of development of our brain. Maybe if we were more evolved, we would perceive reality differently, we would have more than five senses, which would be more evolved, as well. Of course, we don't know the true power of our brains, we know only as much as the technology made possib...

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