I present now the thoughts that have been dwelling in my mind for a couple of intellectually productive days. I ask that you open your mind, for as any wise man knows, this is the only way to ponder philosophy productively. I actually suggest you read up on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave; it does a good job explaining that. Consider this:
Subjective reality—reality as is perceived in the human mind—is an interpretation of objective reality, a reality that is far different than we think. Reality exists as we know it because we exist.
Time is one of my favorite topics to ponder over. It is interesting to note that most people don’t really understand time for what it is. Firstly, I will note that time does not move forward in “objective reality”. Time moves forward in our subjective reality simply by virtue of the fact that our brain processes at a finite speed, as defined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Here is an example: An ant lives, lets say, for only a week. But—and here is where I’m taken aback—the ant’s brain is so small that the time it takes for an electrical signal to fire from one brain faculty to another is reduced by a factor of hundreds of times in comparison to us. This means that the ant’s brain operates at a faster speed than our own by the same factor—it thinks and processes information many times faster and thus perceives reality at a proportionally slowed down rate. Now I don’t know the exact size of an ant’s brain in comparison to our own, but let’s assume that it is smaller than ours by a factor of a thousand. This means that the ant may live for only a week from our perspective, but in its own subjective reality it lived for a thousand weeks. That is seven thousand days, or more than nineteen years. So don’t feel bad for the ant for living such a short life, because in terms of our own subjective realities it lived a lot longer than you think.
Remember: Reality is an illusion. It exists only because you exist. It is our individual interpretation of perception. Perception is subjective, and can be anything. It may sound odd, but if you consume a psychedelic drug that alters your perception, you are actually altering reality itself—subjective reality, that is. Everything you see, or hallucinate, is reality because it is what you perceive at the time, and reality is again just our interpretation of perception. Reality is an illusion. It is not a concrete, eternal, and straightforward concept. The idea of the passage of time is also an illusion of our perception, because in objective reality time is not moving in any direction and does not exist at any location in the universe's timeline. Time just IS. The universe doesn't operate without context. You might even go so far as to say that it doesn't exist without context. This means that there really is no objective reality at all. Existence and “reality” as we know them to be only exist because we exist. That is true of all of us. Furthermore, we do not all exist in the same reality. We are each within our own reality; our own existence.
This is my theory that I conceived with little prior knowledge of philosophy. I later found how similar my beliefs are to two pre-existing schools of philosophy called Transcendental Idealism and Eternalism, but whatever.
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