Yes. There's a stand-up comedian, Jim Jeffries, who talks about this, and it makes me laugh every time.
He goes on about how there were two white people put into the jungle by God, and they went at it and had children, and then more children, and for the amount of inbreeding, very few retards.
If I did I don't remember. I'm more inclined to credit my 75 years of reading living, research, and over ten years of forum debates.
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Sat 25 Feb, 2012 01:39 pm
"What is real?" is a question that becomes stranger and stranger the more I look at it. I say "look at it" rather than "think about it". This is because when thinking about it I take so much for granted, presuppositions that make it seem almost self-evident or mundane.
I guess scientists do not consider this question (What is real?) a "basic" problem. Practically, of course, they want to avoid delusions, like "optical illusions". But this does not itself have intellectual or theoretical significance. Psychologically, of course, we want our thoughts, feelings and perceptions of the world to be "realistic"--not sure why, except for practical reasons. And the avoidance of delusion has great "spiritual" significance for meditative Buddhism.
But when I meditate, i.e., look as openly, receptively, non-defensively, and with as few presuppositions as possible, at "my" world of objects the idea of "real-ness" has little or no significance. Everything simply "IS", whether it be "objectively real" or not. Phenomenological reality is my ultimate reality, and it IS me, my "true" Self.
Forgive the sermon
