REALITY

The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. The state or quality of having existence or substance. Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existed within a system, as opposed to that which is only imaginary. In physical terms, reality is the totality of a system, known and unknown. Philosophers can separate real from reality. Reality according to them is a substance that actually exists in an external world. To be real is to exist without the need to be proven to exist. If it is real, then it is just real. Defining reality is the ultimate scientific quest- to understand everything that there is. But the closer we get, the further it seems. We experience it all the time, but struggle to define it, let alone understand it. It seems so solid and yet when we examine it closely it melts away like a mirage. We don't know where it began, how big it is, where it came from and we certainly have no clue why it exists. We are now at a point where it is equally credible to claim that reality is entirely dependent on subjective experience, or entirely independent of it. Reality has never felt so unreal. Reality is all of your experience and knowledge of the world that helps you to determine how things appear to you. The state of the world as it really is, rather than as you might want it to be.