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Yanni November 09, 2019 at 07:38 1500 views 3 comments

Hi everyone,

I’m new here and would just like to introduce myself with these thoughts/questions.

This is something that I’ve been thinking about lately.

Could it be reasonable to assume that our perceived reality is (just) an external projection i.e. a representation of how we excogitate internally. And in that way is it perhaps just a ‘tool’ that we have developed in order to better process our ideas?

In this case our ‘ideas’ would have had to come before our bodies as they too would be a representation of some structure of thought.

Knowing the origin of these ideas would be knowing what came before the body.
I guess I’m saying that i see a correlation between this sentiment and not knowing the origin of ‘life’/the universe’

Is this idealism? Because part of the usefulness of the ‘tool’ would have to be our perception that this is the realist reality we get...

Again I’m new here and have only started to take learning about philosophy a little more seriously.

I hope this makes sense haha if not please feel free to direct me to anyone I should read that may help me make more sense of these loose ideas!

Thanks

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Galuchat November 09, 2019 at 08:22 #350564 0 likes

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Yanni Nicolandos:Could it be reasonable to assume that our perceived reality is (just) an external projection i.e. a representation of how we excogitate internally. And in that way is it perhaps just a ‘tool’ that we have developed in order to better process our ideas?

Hello, Yanni.
For starters, what is:
1) Perceived reality? And how does it differ from unperceived reality, or reality in general?
2) An external projection? And how does it differ from an internal projection, or projection in general?
3) Internal excogitation? And how does it differ from external excogitation, or excogitation in general?
4) An idea, and how is it processed?

Yanni November 09, 2019 at 08:56 #350573 0 likes

So when i say 'perceived reality' i'm implying that there is a 'truer' reality that isn't available to us due to limitations on our sensory perceptions (e.g. partial perception of colour spectrum, partial perception of sound frequencies) as well as limitations on our ability to excogitate (developing heuristics which sometimes lead to error, cognitive biases etc.)
Similar idea as Plato's theory of Forms in the way that a (truer) reality exists independently of the reality we perceive.

As for 'external' - I mean this as external from the perspective of the 'truer' reality - outward from that 'truer' reality via 'it's' own internal excogitations'

As for the 'idea' and how its being processed - I mean to say that our individual experience in this 'lower and limited' reality is part of the processing of the idea (from the 'truer reality'). Again, as a projection or some sort of simulation.

Galuchat November 09, 2019 at 09:38 #350580 0 likes

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Thanks for your elaboration.