Do you believe perception alters reality?

[peregrine]

Originally Posted by chardish

Better quote.

"Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man...or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate of sashimi?"

Name the speaker and the work from which it was referenced. 100 credits to the first person who gets it, and names 5 major characters in the work to show they're not just Googling.

Of course that's gotta be Masa, cuz he ain't talkin about being the wind ; )

Anyways, you guys should look into David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature he was an early pioneer of psychology as well as being an emperialist philosopher. Ultimately, we can't rely on anything to give us definite input, so we really don't know jack about what happens around us. Simple conclusion to draw, but he argues it so well, it's amazing

Also... for those of you who want a flat out answer, check out the Pragmatist branch of Philosophy. Basically it's this - does it really matter what the truth is as long as things end the same? Example: fate vs. free will... no matter what the case, we're gonna do what we're gonna do regardless of whether or not we were meant to do it. It doesn't give answers, but alleviates the need for answers, which is almost as good.