Is there a physical reality behind our perceptions ?

Question

different species of animals have different perceptions of reality ... eg humans compared to dogs, dolphins and so on

is it that the world is in you and not you in the world.

Answer 1

There is reality behind perceptions, and all animals have the same chance at having the same perception as all other animals.

No animal has "different" perceptions. Perceptions are memories of sensations from the sensory organs. We have no actual memory of the sensations. If we did, you would feel the pain of breaking your arm every time you remembered it. So we lose the memory of the sensation, and retain the memory of our perception OF the sensation.

All animals have roughly equivalent means of obtaining the same perceptions. Snakes use their tongues to detect the heat of food and of enemies. Such differences are only in the specific means; the equivalent means are such that all animals can perceive water, or other animals, the sun rising or setting and its heat, etc.

The world is in you, but it only gets there through your sensory organs. The things you perceive are called "cognoscenti," meaning the objects of perception. Your mind is the subject of the objects. Without empirical things existing outside of your mind and outside your sensory organs, you would not exist as a conscious entity. A consciousness with nothing to be conscious of is a contradiction in terms.

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Answer 2

No

Your past experiences, and preconceived ideas are in you.... how you view the world is based on what you have already seen, been through, experiences, your age, location, and your genetical make-up. But I can't say that the world is in anyone. In what way were you thinking in might be?  

Answer 3

I would say that my senses help me perceive the physical world around me. So my perception of most of the reality is really the world outside me. My internal world consists of my conscious thoughts and my subconscious world. We humans could never know how other intelligent animals think, feel or perceive reality.

Answer 4

In fact, our perceptions show us only a thin slice of that which surrounds us.

Answer 5

Your, not the, whole world is between your ears. If you mother did not teach you the word, and the object of a table, you would have no idea what it was.  Like explaining yellow to a (born) blind person. And had she told you it was an 'ertlu-it' you would have learned it that way. My son was always confused between Mormons and hormones, because I taught him so. Until he had a argument with his teacher, who, funnily enough, did not know what a Mormon is.

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Answer 6

its simple. all ya gotta do is let go and fall. fall until ur flat on everything and at the same time, nothing. it doesn't matter what the name of something is, or the origin, or the nature. its all just. just "what"? u ask? exactly. what. there is no space, no stars, no air, no gravity. just............. now thats for u to fill in.