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Question Hi, I have read article from some website...and I have some issue concerning the existence of science and human, which is more toward philosophy, and some more toward quantun physic but I want to get some scientific view from you....as simple as possible...thanks
"Another point to be considered is the sense of distance. Distance, which is to say the distance between you and this book, is only a feeling of emptiness formed in your brain. Objects that seem to be distant in that person’s view also exist in the brain. For instance, someone who watches the stars in the sky assumes that they are millions of light-years away from him. Yet what he "sees" are really the stars inside himself, in his centre of vision. While you read these lines, you are, in truth, not inside the room you assume you are in; on the contrary, the room is inside you. Your seeing your body makes you think that you are inside it. However, you must remember that your body, too, is an image formed inside your brain.
The "external world" presented to us by our perceptions is merely a collection of the electrical signals reaching our brain. Throughout our lives, these signals are processed by our brain and we live without recognising that we are mistaken in assuming that these are the original versions of matter existing in the "external world". We are misled because we can never reach the matter itself by means of our senses.
Moreover it is again our brain that interprets and attributes meaning to the signals that we assume to be the "external world". For example, let us consider the sense of hearing. It is in fact our brain that transforms the sound waves in the "external world" into a symphony. That is to say, music is also a perception created by our brain. In the same manner, when we see colours, what reaches our eyes are merely electrical signals of different wavelengths. It is again our brain that transforms these signals into colours. There are no colours in the "external world". Neither is the apple red nor is the sky blue nor the trees green. They are as they are just because we perceive them to be so. The "external world" depends entirely on the perceiver." http://www.islamicity.com/Science/quranandscience/mystery/GeneratedFiles/quotThe...
I feel very disturbing after reading the following article...and this part of it only.....I actually wish to brush it away as some religion theory....however...I am very upset to accept the truth that it indeed has some scienfic prove in it, which I can't deny.
Please help answer some of the question about my life?
-Is our perception of our life and world is a lies? How do we know this not a illusion from our mind?
- If we encounter barrier like wall when we walk, and I can feel it hit it with my hand, do the wall "exist" outside of my body?
-Do human have body of their own in the external world? Hands, legs? arm? eyes? nose? Do our body system exist?organ like brain, lung, heart....
-Is there a world "outside our body" exist?
-our senses, touch,sight,hearing,smell and taste, do they actually exist in the external world?
-Do we really fall sick? Do we really need treatment? am I alive? Do we get injuired? do people really "die"?
-The information, we get through our senses about this world, do it really exist?
-How can we prove the existence of our world?
-Do our senses actually exist? if it exist, what is the use of senses? do it really help us to survive in this world?
-we perceive the world through the electrical signal to our brain...but where do the signal come from?
- How about pain and sensation? do they also exist?
-Are we really human we think we am? I can see the body of others and others could see my body...do it exist?
-How we do perceive the surrounding? Why do we need to perceive the surrounding? do the surrounding really "there?"
-If I point to the red apple to another person, he will also "see" the red apple? do we perceive the same signal? most importnatlly...is "there a red apple"?
Are we living in the reality? do the reality exist? do our world exist?
-How can we prove the existence of another human being? the existence of other people? Is my parent, friend, kins, family all really exist?
-Do the law of science really exist and applied in the reality? law of physic..law of chemistry...
-How we sure that the passing of time? Is perspective of time also a perception of mind? Do we really grow up and grow old? Are we still the same person as who we are when we are small? how about space? do space exist?
-Is it true that 2 matter will never touch each other? Atoms are never in physical contact with one another? no atoms of any one object can ever touch the atoms of another!?
-Is that true everything is make up of energy? if it is true do the material world still exist? Is there a material world for us to live?
-Do the world still exist when we sleep? When when we sleep..does the world and surrounding still exist? Is there still reality?
Answer Rambo,
That's quite a set of questions! I will do the best I can to answer a few of the more basic questions with answers from Scientology.
Here are a few quotes from Scientology Scriptures on "Reality":
"Reality is, here on earth, agreement as to what is. This does not prevent barriers or time from being formidably real. It does not mean either that space, energy, or time are illusions. It is as one knows it is." (Creation of Human Ability)
"Reality is that sequence which begins with postulates (thoughts) and ends with mass, which we originally defined as an agreed-upon thing. Reality is the agreed-upon apparency of existence." (Lecture: Control and the Mechanics of Start-Change-Stop)
"That which is real is real simply because it is agreed upon, and for no other reason." (Dianetics 55!)
"Reality is the agreement on upon perceptions and data in the physical universe." (Scientology 0-8)
These are from the Axioms of Scientology:
Axiom 3: "Space, energy, objects, form and time are the result of considerations made and/or agreed upon by the static [life] and are perceived solely because the static [life] considers that it can perceive them."
Axiom 11 "The considerations resulting in conditions of existence are fourfold:
a. "As-isness is the condition of immediate creation without persistence, and is the condition of existence which exists at the moment of creation and the moment of destruction, and is different from other considerations in that it does not contain survival.
b. "Alter-isness is the consideration which introduces change, and therefore time and persistence, into an as-isness to obtain persistency.
c. "Isness is an apparency of existence brought about by the continuous alteration of an as-iness. This is called, when agreed upon, reality.
d. "Not-isness is the effort to handle isness by reducing its condition through the use of force. It is an apparency and cannot entirely vanquish an isness."
Axiom 26 "Reality is the agreed-upon apparency of existence."
Axiom 27 "An actuality can exist for one individually, but when it is agreed with by others it can be said to be a reality.
The anatomy of reality is contained in isness, which is composed of as-isness and alter-isness. An isness is an apparency, not an actuality. The actuality is as-isness altered so as to obtain a persistency.
Unreality is the consequence and apparency of the practice of not-isness."
In "The Fundamentals of Thought," L. Ron Hubbard talks about "the Three Universes." These are 1. Your own universe; 2. The other person's universe; and 3. The agreed upon universe of reality.
I could go on and on, Scientology has a lot to say on the subject.
There may be some similarities between Scientology's view on reality and the view expressed in that video. But the main point of the video seems to be that nothing exists outside of your mind. And if you kick a rock, that sensation you get only exists in your mind. So far, this may or may not be true. But now let's suppose that your friend John comes along and he sees the rock, too. Now you have to conclude that John only exists in your mind, too. This leads down to the inevitable finality that YOU are the only thing in the universe that exists, and that everything you perceive is simply in your imagination, including other beings. This seems like a sad, lonely existence.
The most basic and fundamental aspect of reality according to Scientology is AGREEMENT. This, by definition, requires multiple beings. Therefore, my opinion is that ideas like, "all is in your head," and, "you are the only one," contradict fundamental tenets of Scientology. I know other people exist because I can communicate with them, they can act causatively, and they tend to behave unpredictably.
I can not sit here and answer each of your questions one by one. First off, you asked twenty different questions, and I only have so much time. Second, Scientology is a study that encourages a person to discover answers to life's questions on his own. I have tried to provide you with some of the most applicable information from Scientology, and my own opinion on the matter. However, I would encourage you to study the materials of Scientology and reach your own conclusions. If you do wish to study this further, please read Scientology books by L. Ron Hubbard. These can be found at most libraries in the world or at any local Church of Scientology.
