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I was hoping to get people's views on reality. Under the influence of psychedelics, people claim to see things that are unfathomable to the mind or things which transcend the English language. They can see, hear and touch objects in this "realm".
My problem is with people discounting this as purely fictional. If we base reality off of the wiki definition:
Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". [1] The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In other words, "reality", as a philosophical category, includes the formal concept of "nothingness" and articulations and combinations of it with other concepts (those possessing extension in physical objects or processes for example).
...We get pretty much nowhere. So what makes people automatically assume that people are seeing things which do not exist, rather than accepting that they have altered their sense of perception in this endeavor and are now seeing things that normally go unnoticed?
My problem is with people discounting this as purely fictional. If we base reality off of the wiki definition:
Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". [1] The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. Reality in this sense may include both being and nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature). In other words, "reality", as a philosophical category, includes the formal concept of "nothingness" and articulations and combinations of it with other concepts (those possessing extension in physical objects or processes for example).
...We get pretty much nowhere. So what makes people automatically assume that people are seeing things which do not exist, rather than accepting that they have altered their sense of perception in this endeavor and are now seeing things that normally go unnoticed?