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You turn to the first section, marked "What is Real?" and read the answers written. You ponder writting a response of your own: Submit your own response.

Name: Rachel C.
E-mail: RacheySmachey@hotmail.com
Answer:Real is entirely subjective. For every person it's different. There is no such thing a real. Real exists in us, not as a factor outside of us.

Name: FiberOptic
E-mail:cyber_artel@yahoo.com
Answer: Knowing what is real is very hard, since there is no way to prove that something is real. Reality is a state of existence. Math may someday be used to calculate the 'reality' of certain objects and states of matter. We don't know for certain what is real and what's not real, we usually believe something is real if we can see it, hear it, touch it, smell it, taste it, but since our brain is such a complex organism itself, it may not be completely able to translate all the inputs that are fed to it from the nervous system. Well to sum this all up: Reality is what you make of it. And until something is completely proven take everything with a pinch of salt.

Website on chaos theory and other related phenomena will be up soon. http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/artel site not up yet. Will be up completely by March 2000

Name: Lili
E-mail:brynnardn@hotmail.com
URL: http://members.tripod.com/~Lili_kira/lilikins.html
Answer: Reality is what we choose to perceive - what we each individually acquire in the small amount of time in our lives, which when combined creates a pleasant belief humanity uses to stablitize themselves in a world full of chaos. Of course, every man's reality is different. A man in the loony bin has a totally different concept of reality compaired to a "normal" man....which brings up the fact that normality is another step to creating reality. Explaining further, reality is something mankind has made as a basis to rely on - because truly, who is to say what is wrong and right when every mind opposes the other? So, one day man tried to create order in a world full of disorder, and by doing so created laws, which further developed a sense of reality. With these laws, they created "normality", yet another base humans lay down so that they might find comfort in locking up the "abmornal." They laid down what they perceived to be the best way of life, and the best and most comforting reality they could somewhat understand. Reality is all in the mind and soul (not to mention the eyes), and what you believe - something stable we all can rely on so that our minds may go on to fathoming simpler questions and searching for those answers.

I wrote this a long time ago, but I think it ties in somewhat to this subject.

Everyone percieves a different reality from which they live by.
Some people choose to live in black and white, living in the past.
Other's choose the gaily colored features of their surroundings to percieve their world.
And yet some see only the deep, hollow, and colorless misery, which they entwine themselves into. They choose to stay in their shadow. Wonderous is all this, but one questions these insights.
People only perceive what they want and what

Name: Colonel Sanders
E-mail: mephisto@hotmail.com
URL: http://dine.at/kfc
Answer: Never is an object perceived directly, always it is sensory input interpreted by the grids that we place on whatever external world there is. Understanding the limits upon our knowledge, it becomes clear then that "existence" must be put in terms of knowledge that we have, i.e. knowledge of impressions upon our senses. If the only knowledge possessed is not about anything external to us, and concerns only us, then when we describe an object as existing, we are in actuality not making a claim about the object, instead we are making a claim about ourselves and how we view the world that appears before us. That is to say, when we say an apple exists, we say so because we perceive the properties that we, for whatever reason, associate with apples.

Name: Vamniss
URL: www.oocities.org/cognitive_dissidents13

Answer: What do you know? What can you know? Let's try something: Look at someone near you. How do you know they're there? Right. You can see them. Now, close your eyes-- are they still there? How do you? Maybe you can hear them. If they were quiet, maybe you could smell them.

Now how about a guy on Mt. Everest-- does he exist? How do you know? You can't see him, hear him, smell him, or touch him. Maybe someone else tells you he's there. But do you really trust other folks to tell you what's real and what's not?

Here's the dark of it: You can only sense what's real, and what's real is only what you can sense. To sense something is to know it, because you can't know anything if you haven't sensed it. I'm out to sense everthing, to try everything. Experience is the key. To know the truth, you've got to have experienced everything. Now, I don't mean that I want to climb every tree on Bali or get drunk on champagne every night for a month. I want a range of experiences. I want to try everything once- maybe twice. Sure it sounds ambitious, but at least it's fun...

Name: Andrea B
E-mail: AndyLes@aol.com
Answer: Everything is real. Perception varies, of course, but even things that exist only in the mind are real, because the key word is that they "exist." Whether it is in the mind, on a piece of paper, or driving down the road, if it has ever come into thought or being, it must be real... for it has existed. And maybe this is especially true for those things only in the mind. Perception alters the intake of so mething... perception changes with age and experience, but what is real is what has ever been, what has ever existed. That doesn't change.

Name: Andre Couture
E-mail: CybeRage29@aol.com
Answer: Everything u see, smell, touch, hear, taste, experience, do, love, hate, and feel is real. our preception means absolutely to reality. there is absolutely no way that what i percieve is reality, even my own reality. lets face it...if we could manipulate reality, we would be gods!!! i dont know about u but i certantly dont want that weight on my shoulders.

Name: Laura
E-mail: laura@eaze.screaming.net
Answer: I am not sure what is real. I think that real is a concept made up when language was invented and reinforced by usage as if it had meaning. It seems that a part of that question that is emotive generally is: Am I real? I am not sure if I am or not. I dont know. I do think that I think [if you get what I mean} that reality is a story that is enforced by the strongest and that every interaction is an attempt to win over other to join this reality party. I think my question after what is reality? is, What do we do with it then?

Name: Jayhawk
E-mail: jayhawk@eyrie.demon.nl
URL: http://www.eyrie.demon.nl
Answer: R eality is an illusion...if enough people believe in something, it tends to get real. Never mind what science says.

As James Christensen said: "Believing is seeing."

Name: Tiffany Wey
E-mail: tiff-is-spiff@usa.net
URL: http://www.oocities.org/athens/agora/3986
Answer: I believe that real is what you perceive things to be. Your real may not be the same real as another person's real, but if you believe that somethign is real, it is real to you. However, on the issue of a universal real, a widely accepted reality, there are confining rules, such as those pertaining to existing matter...and so forth. And that real is very tricky and scientific, with counterexamples all over the place. But idealistically, I would like to think that real is what you can decide, based on your perception.