Reality-Archived

Introduction

The greatest question of philosophy has always been the question of reality. This question is undoubtedly the most important question in all bodies of knowledge. May it be the physical sciences and the social sciences, yet it is the one that lacks a conclusive answer. All other questions of the physical and the social science can be answered with perfect rigor, and all people would come in agreement with it. There may be dissenters, but the majority is in agreement. On the other hand, the first question of reality has never been agreed upon, answers exist, but none agreed upon. Yet, is it even worth delving into that question?

Another question that continues is of suffering. Why do we suffer? It is a despicable experience, and most would agree that they hate suffering. Suffering drives us to cause more suffering, to cry, to steal, to kill, and to die. And the worst of all, this world seems to be filled to the brim with such phenomenon, may it be murder, rape, genocide, hatred, slavery, oppression, and all of the depravity which exists. And paradoxically, is it worth to end suffering?

And the last question, the meaning of life, what is the meaning of life? Why is that we humans exist and live and die? Yes, many have claimed to find their purpose, their design in this world. But know that many others have died before speaking their first words, or before even having a functional heart, and others have died because of the “purpose” of their fellow men. In such chaotic situation, is it even possible to resolve this tangled mess?

In light of all these questions, and if we wish for an answer, we must answer the first question. We shall tear down all conceptions of reality, and dig down deeper than the center of the earth. Then, once all things have been destroyed and wrecked, we start anew. From that, we will discover reality, the true reality.

Existence

What is reality? That is the question. While the materialist conception of reality is in no way false, it is also in no way pure. The reason we reject materialism is not because it is wholly false, that materiality is non existent, it is that materiality is impure. Impure meaning it is not irreducible, it is not the simplest form of reality. A simple thought experiment can prove this, say of a tree. The tree is indeed not the purest form of itself, instead energy and elementary particles is the true form of the tree, arranged in such a way to look like the way it looks. What we seek is the pure form of reality, and not the extended form.

Of course, it is impossible to speak of reality without determining its existence. After all, existence is the most fundamental aspect of any object. Even a tree, its existence precedes the height, the leaves, or the chloroplasts within it. Yet how do we determine existence? It is true that we can determine it with a criterion, simply put a requirement to exist. If said object fulfills this requirement, then it is said to exist. However, our criterion does not exist for we begin in absolute ignorance of knowledge. As such, we will borrow the most common criterion, the empirical criterion.

The empirical criterion dictates that what exists, is what can be sensed. Specifically using the multiple sensory organs of the human body. This criterion is favored by scientists and also the general public, after all it is how we perceive reality every day of our lives. Regardless of general support, we must still examine this criterion if it fits with our question. While again, there is no criterion of “fitness”, we can say that if the criterion does not cause contradiction, it can be taken as true.

For that purpose, let us produce another thought experiment of a large tree in the middle of a forest. By the criterion, if people have seen this tree, then this tree does exist. It is quite simple, but what if no one has ever seen that tree? Of course, if no one has ever seen it, we can not say that it exists at all. Another similar problem is Russel’s teapot by Betrand Russel, though made for different purposes, it serves the point. Then what happens if at a point in time, a person came in and observed the tree? Does it magically materialize by virtue of observation?

To be generous, let us accept that the tree indeed materialize upon the observation of itself, but what of the humans? One may argue that the humans guarantee their collective existence by observing each other. Of course, being generous let us accept that as truth. Then another question is if there is only a single human, who or what guarantees their existence? Or what happens before humans existed? There is no supposed “observer” within the world, as such what causes the existence of the observer and the world? In short, this criterion can not be used as a definitive criterion, due to the complications caused.

If the empirical criterion can not be used, then what is there to be used? Simple, when no criterion of existence can be described, then we must accept that existence itself can not be stated. Why is that? That is the result of the criterion not just a criterion, but also the very essence of existence, on what differentiates between existent and non existent objects. And if no existence can be stated, unfortunately we must also accept that existence itself is false, and reality is non existent.

Non-existence may be true, or it may be false, the reason that it is still not completely true is the way it is proven. It is proven to be true because evidence shows the falsity of the opposite, that existence is false. Or more precisely, the lack of evidence of the opposite. While this is commonly a fallacy, here we have a generally logical reason for this. We were unable to state anything about existence, and if existence is true certainly there must be a corresponding statement. An object which exists must be able to be described, thus a lack of description means the lack of the object.

As stated, non-existence may be true or it may be false. And to determine it we must reexamine the argument of non-existence, yes we have our proofs, but it is a derived proof. This time we require a proof of non-existence which does not derive from merely the lack of evidence of the opposite. This sort of problem is also prevalent in debates of God, many atheists claim that the lack of evidence of God proves the truth of the non-existence of God. Which is unfortunately, fallacious.

However, how are we to examine something that does not even exist? Non-existence is as described, nothingness, a nothing that can not be described. There is nothing to be said of anymore, for there is indeed nothing! And that is where the problem lies, we are still able to speak of “nothingness” when we should not be able to. As such, by claiming, “Nothing exists,” we have proved it false by creation. That creation is the statement of nothingness, and by the greatest irony, it destroys itself and the supposed void it attempts to describe.

With the utter deletion of the void, we only have the opposite of itself, that is existence. This existence, is the one statement of reality, that is the statement of existence. As such, it now claims, “Something exists,” whatever that something is. With this proof, the existence of reality is guaranteed and undeniable, in the form of this mysterious statement as we see. Regarding the determinants of existence, it is in fact reality itself. Meaning that the only determinant of existence is not observation, rather the object itself, and to understand deeper we must understand the true nature of reality.

Pure Reality

Without any other analysis, we can deduce that there are 2 fundamental natures of reality, that is existence and self determination. Self determination meaning the determination of one’s existence by virtue of oneself and no other. Though of course, reality and existence is congruent and is identical. What differentiates is the context, reality refers to the object, and existence refers to the property. What exists is real and what is real exists.

In regards to the arithmetic properties of reality, it is nonsensical for us to address it. For reality is only one, it is united and thus when addressing the cardinality of reality, there is only 1  reality. While reality itself may contain multiple objects or entities, and while you can theoretically create different copies of reality, there would always be one reality only. Reality is not a bounded object which can be counted and multiplied, instead it is an infinite object which has no true bounds. It is akin to infinity itself, that is the elimination of limits and bounds.

In regards to the determinant properties of reality, is it perhaps possible for it to destroy itself? After all, it is a self determinant object, which by theory should also be able to determine the non existence of itself. No. Reality can not destroy itself, existence is a certain and absolute property, it is eternal and can not be changed. Existence is perhaps the only upper limit of reality, in which nothing can escape existence. As such, why is it that reality is described as self determinant when it is bounded by existence?

A solution may be to accept that existence itself is required for the cessation of existence. Or perhaps that non-existence itself is self determinant. It can determine its own non-existence, and is not bounded to exist, nor is it bounded to continue in perpetual non-existence. Of course that is a meaningless proposition, even in the absence of all dimension or physicality, the nature of self determination may be, along with existence, be the upper limit of all reality.

Another problem of self determination, is in relation with our current empirical realities. If we indeed have the powers of self determination, then why are bounded as a human being to strict physical laws and material limits? Say we desire some sort of material pleasure, and we merely thought of it, we will never be able to materialize our desires. If we are indeed self determinant, are we not the Gods and Goddesses of reality? Able to shape reality in our image, yet it is “reality” which shapes us in its image.

Returning to the single statement of reality, wasn’t it a claim of non-existence previously? How can it be equated with the claim of existence? Certainly both are two different things, and now it is as if we have 2 different entities. Of the observer and the observations, the thinker and the thinking. Perhaps we can accept the existence of the claimant of existence, as it is indeed a self determinant reality which we are describing. Yet, what of the claims of oblivion?

Of course by the nature of self determination, we must accept the existence of false ideas, ideas which are clearly not what reality is. The same goes for the big tree in the forest, it requires no humans to exist. It exists by the virtue of itself and its self determination. However, how is it that it can exist and we are unable to observe it? As if there exists another property, perhaps a so called property of awareness? Perhaps it is the capabilities of an entity to receive information of others.

Yet is it not true that even the different states of awareness are objects within themselves? And they too have the powers of existential self determination. With that, they exist along with the aforementioned ideas and objects, and then added with dimensions, emotions, materials, and all infinite objects at once. Along with the awareness of all of it, at a single point, and with that the permanent coexistence of all things possible and impossible, in a condition called the superposition.

The superposition, is the purest form of reality, and is the highest form of it, where all things exist and realized in the same time. Where usually we may see a linear motion of a football in a parabola, in the superposition we see the ball in every point of the line at once, and also every other point in which it does not travel. In the superposition, nothing can be thought of and nothing can be done, for all has been done, is being done, and will be done. There is no dimension, no motion, no change, nothing.

Subjective Reality

Perhaps the greatest irony of superposition is that it is not the pure form of reality at all. In it, the reality has no powers over itself, it is eternally bound to an infinite unity, of an infinite existence. It is all experienced within a single point of infinite property and nature, without dimension, without time, without change. This condition is unacceptable, and by nature of self determination, superpositions are impossible, and cease to exist.

Instead of the collective chaos of superposition, we return to the beginning, of pure existence and self determination. Where reality is capable of determining not just existence, but of non-existence. And thus the chronology is created, where things happen not at once, but in order and a line. Where no two points are the same, and all progresses in an orderly linear fashion, that is what we know as time.

It is within the chronology that the powers of self determination is maximized, where “freedom” emerges. Freedom becomes not just the determination of existence, but the power to control its own path in the chronology. It is the power to determine which states of reality shall be experienced be it in the past as it has decided, in the present as it is being decided, and in the future as it will be decided. And of course, while there is only one superposition, there are infinite amounts of chronological realities.

The superposition remains however, not as a state of awareness but as what it is, a description of the contents of reality. That all things do exist, in the past, in the present, and in the future at once. It is in fact the conservation of existence, but it is not a controller. Our experiences are not mere elements of the superposition, and the changes we make are not mere switches between one element and another element. Because we are the determinants of existence, if we say, “Let change be done, “ then it is done.

Of course, while freedom is in technical terms is to determine the states of awareness which comes after from the superposition, it is more importantly of change. The determination of change, and thus the power to change reality and ourselves, by virtue of our true self, that is freedom.

Conclusion

Reality is the reality that exists, that determines its own existence and nature. It is a reality free to choose between the horrors of superposition or the humility of chronologies. And ironically, it is one reality that can only be realized, by denying it in the first place. A reality accepted through rejection, loved through hatred, existed through non-existence. Regardless, the greatest beauty of it, is that we are the reality, we are the beholders of existence and of our own path, that is, reality. God bless.

Dismissed in preparation of a more complete writing.