What is Real?
AI Generated Free Photo. As children we are taught that something is “real” only if it comes to us through the uses of our senses or by dogma given to us by the “authoritarians”. If we can touch it, see it, hear it, taste it, and smell it, then it must be real. The harsh truth however is much more abstract. Physics has proven it is impossible for us to actually touch anything since at the atomic level the atoms within our skin can not physically contact the atoms that make up a table. 1 What actually occurs is an electro-chemical stimulus is transmitted from the nerve endings of our hand to our brain. In fact all our senses are nothing more than stimulus transmissions. Light stimulates the cones and rods of our eyes; sound stimulates the nerve fibers of the inner ear; etc. Our brain collates, correlates, associates, and ultimately manifests a conscious perspective related to the stimuli. Even time is a subjective construct, created within our minds. Tests were performe