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Sarah Harding's picture

I agree that there is no use

I agree that there is no use in worrying about the blank spots that the brain makes up for. For each person, reality is what they are experiencing, and it doesn't necessarily matter how "real' it is. However, it bothers me that each person might be visualizing things differently. How strange that we could be looking at the same the thing and seeing it completely differently. I really like the way that you descibed our sense of reality as having always been this way. I guess if there's nothing we can do to reveal the "true" and "universal" reality, we should accept that reality is actually composed of billions of versions of reality and consciousness. The reality of the situation is: to each person, what they are seeing is real. So maybe there isn't a universal reality, maybe the truth of reality is that every person's perceptions are true.

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