About the perception of reality
An opinion from the Internet on perception of reality:
“Perception detects differences in the energy layout that have action consequences. A creature with a better perception detects action possibilities that others miss. If there is anything “beyond” to be perceived — it has to provide better outcomes in action as well. Without that — it’s fantasy.”
I fully agree with you.
Our present problem is — as we can see from how sciences are struggling to understand our world, Universe, each becoming more and more theoretical, philosophical — we have reached a limit beyond which we cannot penetrate our reality more, and thus we do not understand where we are, what we should do.
We can see this especially through quantum physics which — even with the superficial attainment physicists achieved — rocks our fundamental belief in our Newtonian worldview, with its concrete coordinates and vectors of time, space, and motion.
We became uncertain about physical reality as particles can be either ‘solid” or as waves, and we also know that by simply observing something we already change it. In short, we do not know reality outside of our own egocentric, subjective imagination, what we think the reality is is simply our collective fantasy!
Fortunately, there is an empirical, natural science that claims, that it can help us acquire a completely selfless, thus objective perception of reality, through which we can “enter” the world we live in and research it, attain it “from within”.
This unique perception cannot be individual, egocentric, or subjective, as in order to perceive, research something we need to acquire at least a certain level of similarity with it. In order to research and understand integral nature, in order to understand what quantum physics hints at — states beyond the limitations of time, space, and physical motion — we need a collective, integral perception we can put together only by initially selfish, egocentric, subjective individuals making efforts to build such selfless, altruistic connections where they become able to sense, perceive and understand reality through the desires, needs and viewpoints of others.
This will give us a “tool”, “instrument”, window through which we can “peek” into true reality, seeing, understanding it as it is.
I think that there is no doubt that such a selfless, objective perception, the full attainment of the world around us offers unprecedented, incomprehensible benefits for all of us.