The reality of Realism

  Reality is waiting to show its true colors, a wise person once told me. The reality of what precisely? In fact, what is the reality?

  Reality is what you define it as, but a shared reality is a true reality. A singular reality is a dream or worse, a fantasy. The mind is a whole new world of infinite possibilities and impossibilities.

  Also there is the alternate reality, independent of the ambient reality. In this reality infinite possibilities present themselves. Just a diminutive alteration in any singular occurrence in the time space continuum propels reality into another certainty. This, though is propounded only by science fiction.

  But still, what is reality? Humans go to great extents to understand the nature of man, what makes him living. Is man alive because he thinks? Or, does man think because he is alive? This may be a bunch of crap but the reality is that we do not understand the basic thing about our physical existence.

  What is real? You? Do you think that because I interact with you, then you are real? Is Siri real, taking away the fact that Susan Bennett is the human voice behind it? That interactive program on electronic devices that can keep up at least a simple conversation for some time. Most humans do not agree that Siri is real, basically because "she" cannot be seen and touched. Not an entirely bad basis and for good reason. Real things should be tangible. But should that entirely be the reason for discriminating reality from unreality? No one has seen or touched God. But majority of humans believe that he is real. That is undisputable, hence it puts the theory of Siri's unrealism to bed.

  A person who is high on some hallucinogenic substances can smell colors and see sound. That is absurd to the "unhigh" human, hence we conclude that it is not real.

  Nonetheless, to such individuals those feelings are real for the duration of substance action. Does the drug place in another plane of reality, one that is characterised by different sense perception of both space and time? That seems to tend towards the sci-fi reasoning. But let's not go there.

 At the end of it all, we are left confused and all the more bewildered by the barrage of theories put forward by philosophers, past and present, about the true nature of reality.

 So if reality wants to show its true color, I hope that it first explain itself to us.