@reasoning logic,
RL, you asked Izzy:
Quote:Izzy what criteria do you use to separate reality from make believe?
You know, RL….that actually is an interesting question to ask of anyone. There is a problem with it, however, that I would like to present for consideration.
Take the specific question of: Is there life after death?
Obviously there are (at least) two answers: Either there is…or there is not.
One of those answers is “the reality”…the other is not, or to use your term, it is “make-believe.”
But how could one possible determine which is “reality” and which is “make-believe?”
The “reality” as I see it…is that we do not know. We do not know that there is life after death…and we do not know that there is nothing that follows death--and we know that both are possible answers to the question.
There seems, it is worth noting, that there is absolutely no way to determine which answer is the correct one.
So the only position that truly separates “reality” from “make-believe” on that question is not found in “yes, there is” or “no, there is not”, but rather in “we do not know and there appears to be no way to find out.”
That means there are actually two “realities.” There is the (unknown) “reality” of what actually IS…and there is the (known) reality of “We do not know and apparently cannot find out.”
This may apply in kind to other problems of this sort.