What is Reality?

[Camilo]

Do We Exist in an Infinity of Parallel Worlds?

There is a strange and mysterious
world that surrounds us, a world largely
hidden from our senses. The quest to
explain the true nature of reality is one
of the great scientific detective stories.

Clues have been pieced together from
deep within the atom, from the event
horizon of black holes, and from the far
reaches of the cosmos. It may be that
that we are part of a cosmic hologram,
projected from the edge of the universe.
Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel
worlds. Your reality may never look quite
the same again.

Video (about 58 mins):

Do We Exist in an Infinity of Parallel Worlds?

[Camilo]

Sorry. the video link is not working.

[RunningDeer]

Sorry. the video link is not working.

Hello Camilo,

This looks like the link. As for embedding it, I don't know how.

Do We Exist in an Infinity of Parallel Worlds? (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkvoa0_bbc-horizon-2011-what-is-reality-hdtv_tech#.UZbRqpXzrS8)

"There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.

Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos. It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again."

:wave:ing

[InCiDeR]

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Do We Exist in an Infinity of Parallel Worlds?


I wrote this in another thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?16437-Do-we-really-exist&p=176033&viewfull=1#post176033) som time ago:

Define: Exist


Common usage

In common usage, existence is the world we are aware of through our senses, and that persists independently without them. In academic philosophy the word has a more specialized meaning, being contrasted with essence, which specifies different forms of existence as well as different identity conditions for objects and properties.


Philosophers

Philosophers investigate questions such as "What exists?", "How do we know?", "To what extent are the senses a reliable guide to existence?", and "What is the meaning, if any, of assertions of the existence of categories, ideas, and abstractions?"


Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. A lively debate continues about the existence of God.


Epistemology

Epistemology studies criteria of truth, defining "primary truths" inherently accepted in the investigation of knowledge. The first is existence. It is inherent in every analysis. Its self-evident, a priori nature cannot be consistently doubted, since a person objecting to existence according to some standard of proof must implicitly accept the standard's existence as a premise.


Materialism

Materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter, that all things are composed of material, and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions.

Life is a characteristic that distinguishes objects that have self-sustaining biological processes that exist from those that do not — either because such functions have ceased (death), or else because they lack such functions and are classified as "inanimate".


Etymology

The word "existence" comes from the Latin word existere meaning "to appear", "to arise", "to become", or "to be", but literally, it means "to stand out" (ex- being the Latin prefix for "out" added to the Latin verb stare, meaning "to stand").


Semantics

In mathematical logic, there are two quantifiers, "some" and "all", though as Brentano (1838–1917) pointed out, we can make do with just one quantifier and negation. The first of these quantifiers, "some". is also expressed as "there exists". Thus, in the sentence "There exists a man", the term "man" is asserted to be part of existence.

But we can also assert, "There exists a triangle." Is a "triangle" — an abstract idea —part of existence in the same way that a "man" — a physical body — is part of existence? Do abstractions such as goodness, blindness, and virtue exist in the same sense that chairs, tables, and houses exist? What categories, or kinds of thing, can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition?

Worse, does "existence" exist?

In some statements, existence is implied without being mentioned. The statement "A bridge crosses the Thames at Hammersmith" cannot just be about a bridge, the Thames, and Hammersmith. It must be about "existence" as well. On the other hand, the statement "A bridge crosses the Styx at Limbo" has the same form, but while in the first case we understand a real bridge in the real world made of stone or brick, what "existence" would mean in the second case is less clear.


Conclusion:

Do I exist just because there "exists" a word in our language - Exist - that we agreed upon?
In so, if the word "Exist" exists there must be a common sense of "exist" in my/our body/mind/spirit complex otherwise the word "Exist" and the common sense of it have no meaning and therefore does not exist.

Pof... InCiDeR cease to exist in a logical quantum cloud loop that might or might not exist ;)


Sidenote:

"Do we really exist". The sentence in itself is kind of an oxymoron. We can't answer both questions at the same time. Either we answer "really" or we answer "exist". The word "really" in the sentence makes the question much harder to understand than the answer.

[Sunny-side-up]

Do We Exist ?

I believe anything we find will only be our own projected reality which is in fact a prison of our mind.
I don't think we really are in physical reality.

We now say Black Holes at the center of Galaxies!
Whats in the center of our physical Universe? a super black hole maybe?
I ask this because I believe I've seen the center of our Spiritual Universe and it was a super Sun.

I think I was seing this but maybe it was just the center of our Spiritual Galaxies or some vast astral realm maybe. Any help with this?

[Camilo]

Do We Exist ?

I believe anything we find will only be our own projected reality which is in fact a prison of our mind.
I don't think we really are in physical reality.

We now say Black Holes at the center of Galaxies!
Whats in the center of our physical Universe? a super black hole maybe?
I ask this because I believe I've seen the center of our Spiritual Universe and it was a super Sun.

I think I was seing this but maybe it was just the center of our Spiritual Galaxies or some vast astral realm maybe. Any help with this?

I f you didn't exist you wouldn't be asking that question, there fore you exist.

There are theories out there that say we're holograms and even that we live in a virtual reality. For all I know both could be true. We exist but we are not who we think we are, we are a small % of our own real self in the higher dimensions of reality.

[Sunny-side-up]

Do We Exist ?

I believe anything we find will only be our own projected reality which is in fact a prison of our mind.
I don't think we really are in physical reality.

We now say Black Holes at the center of Galaxies!
Whats in the center of our physical Universe? a super black hole maybe?
I ask this because I believe I've seen the center of our Spiritual Universe and it was a super Sun.

I think I was seing this but maybe it was just the center of our Spiritual Galaxies or some vast astral realm maybe. Any help with this?

I f you didn't exist you wouldn't be asking that question, there fore you exist.

There are theories out there that say we're holograms and even that we live in a virtual reality. For all I know both could be true. We exist but we are not who we think we are, we are a small % of our own real self in the higher dimensions of reality.

Thanks from somone who dose exist :)

I meant this reality we do not really exist as the physical beings we think we are, in that way we do not exist.

Your words say it far better than my attempt

Love and Hugs all

[greybeard]

The famous channelled book "A Course in Miracles" is all about seeing things as they really are.
In order to do this the filter of the ego has to be set aside/bypassed/transcended.
Pure reality is awareness. That is totality being aware as One.
A silent presence --not a voice in the head, the commentator--just awareness being aware of itself in its many shapes forms and formless but yet One.
Not really something that can be described in words.
ACIM says "Know that the moment you take up a position you are identifying with an illusion" and many other thought provoking statements.
Well worth reading is the work book of that course.
Can be found on line.
Chris