Real Aliens in the Real World

Reality is not defined by what humans think. You have it backwards. Humans exist inside reality, they are the subjects of reality - nothing is defined by us except passing conventions.

The idea that though creates reality is poisonous and it should be disregarded by anyone seeking enlightenment.

Originally posted by yampa
Reality is not defined by what humans think. You have it backwards. Humans exist inside reality, they are the subjects of reality - nothing is defined by us except passing conventions.

The idea that though creates reality is poisonous and it should be disregarded by anyone seeking enlightenment.

Really!! Humans exist inside reality? And who is defining this thing you call reality? If not humans then who?
And if Humans are defining reality how do you know what it is without humans defining it? Must be those aliens
still searching for human intelligence - many aliens believe human intelligence to be no more than a myth -
Can you blame them for not wanting to make contact with a being not capable of intelligent thinking?

"Reality an illusion, albeit a persistent illusion."- Einstein

Reality is what the human mind, or any mind perceives of its placement in space and time. The brain is constantly computing information from the reality, and sure the variance can be very different for any individual. And this is where philosophy and metaphysics come in, to make the best attempt possible to understand such things.

However, due to our lack of scientific knowledge of the unknown and quantum mechanics, the best explained explanation of such thing(or similarity) is that reality would work much more similar to a hologram, like the one in Star Trek. But their are big differences to such things.One being, the amount Giga-bytes in one system, and the other...Well you got extra space for 1000 terra bytes to actually accomplish such a feat.

It would be no different if an alien civilization was in our shoes at some point and time, and would make such similar a hypothesis. After all great minds do think a like.