If you ask a pychiatrist what reality is, he will tell you that 'reality is whatever you perceive
your reality to be.' This is because the pychiatrist knows that everything we perceive is actually a re-assembledge of
the electo-chemical signals transmitted by our sensory organs to our brains. What we see is actually a facsimile
of reality. How does a persons' brain judge the reality of what they are seeing? When a child first becomes
conciously self aware, they start asking questions like 'How did we get here?' The answer is not immediatley available
to them. They may choose to believe their parent's explanations without question, or they may search for alternate explanations
on their own.
A child may be told what to believe, or may be given choices in what to believe. An individuals'
experience is unique to that individual. In order to function and relate to the world and other people, people choose
beliefs. How do you know if your beliefs are true? Your perceptions are still just a re-assembledge of electro-chemicle
signals. When it comes to questions like 'Do we experience a reality after death?' a possible answer can in
no way be certain. This forces us to choose beliefs.
The brain is like a computer solving a problem. The problem to be solved is more than just survival. The
brain, at a fundemental level, needs to have true facts about reality in it's program in order to function properly. The problem
is, that some of the things that must be known in order for the brain to function properly, can not easily
be verified, thus the need to choose a belief.
Once a person chooses a belief, the brain will incorporate that belief into the assembledge
of electro-chemical signals that it uses to perceive reality. Whatever a person 'believes' is true, will always 'seem' true
to that person. The reasons for choosing any particular belief are unique to each individual. The danger is in choosing a
belief that just isn't true. Whether or not a belief is true, is irrelevant to the fact that any belief will always 'seem'
true.
This is why people believe in lies. It is the unwillingness to examine and re-access a belief
that otherwise 'seems' true. What 'sounds reasonable' is not always 'sound reasoning.' Aristotal believed that the Earth
was a stationary platform at the center of the Universe with all the other celestial objects rotating around it. The
people held Aristotle in high esteem for their perception of his wisdom, but Aristotle believed in lies.
Here is a good link from a real scientist explaining the
same thing.
False Beliefs
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