Is reality real? A perception overview...

A few questions you can ask yourself before deep-diving into the truths of reality...

One of the most common questions that philosophers ask is, do we perceive reality differently?

Is spacetime differently perceived by you and me?

Are we at the same time, seeing the same things?

This connects to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which says that if you know the momentum of a given particle, you can never know its place in space or even time.

We are all made of particles – is that the same for us?

How many realities are anyway – his, mine, hers, yours, theirs?

What if different perception where different dimensions?

We can never know any of these questions without speeding up time and warping spacetime...

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