Is It Possible That We Are All Experiencing Different Realities

[nailit]

As a sort of carry on from tonights R&S thread about Ouija boards?
Some people claim to have had supernatural experiences (glasses moving on their own accord etc) While I have searched for such experiences and have found nothing. (And really have EXPECTED nothing) Do we see what we expect to see?? As in the double slit experiment?
Is consciousness pliable?
Maybe all isn't as it seems?

[woofgang]

are we all experiencing different realities? of course we are. My reality is being a widow with two old dogs. All of my previous life experiences have taught me to handle my reality in a certain way.....different people with different life experiences will experiewnce the same now differently.

[wolf63]

I experience a different reality if I don't take my medication.
:-)

[douglas9401]

Obviously some people see the world in a completely different way from others Nailit.

This is borne out every day by the status afforded lumpy ignorami tottering on heels that stretch engineering to the limit being seen as role models. All that before we get to those eyebrows...:-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Does the double-slit experiment not produce consistent results?

[Buenchico]

The Wigner's Friend Paradox first postulated (unsurprisingly by a guy called Wigner) that no two people observe the same reality. His work (in the field of quantum physics) remained theoretical until earlier this year, when a team at Heriot-Watt University published a paper which appeared to prove Wigner's assertion:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613092/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/

While their research was primarily a matter for physicists, it also attracted the attention of philosophers, whose varying views are illustrated here:
http://dailynous.com/2019/03/21/philosophers-physics-experiment-suggests-theres-no-thing-objective-reality/

[Old_Geezer]

The brain fills on a lot of gaps from limited input data. Almost certainly we experience different realities.

In any case if time is an illusion everything possible is happening at once in different "time cells". Maybe we all just experience what locally turns out most probable for that version of us.

[Theland]

https://youtu.be/2r74vcMxwUk

Nailit - Food for thought.

[Mamyalynne]

I am glad every day that others don't have my reality and I don't have theirs.

[mibn2cweus]

Consciousness is of reality. All else is delusion. Reality is that small percentage of what we think we know that keeps us alive. The most pernicious delusion is believing you're not deluded at all.

[spathiphyllum]

No.
We all live in different minds.
But reality is what the collective conscious decides is real.

[andy-hughes]

Theland - // https://youtu.be/2r74vcMxwUk

Nailit - Food for thought. //

Indeed it is.

Deciding that this occur because they are 'measured' and thus there is a 'cosmic conciousness' is utterly facile, and takes less than no time to demolish as an argument.

Measuring things is a man-made concept, but to suggest that because anything is 'measured' it indicates a 'cosmic conciousness' makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever.

[andy-hughes]

Edit - for 'this' please read 'things'.

[spathiphyllum]

Fact is, reality is what we all agree on. Such as the sun, roads, cars, buildings etc.. Things we can't agree on are personal perceptions of reality.

[1ozzy]

Too late Andy, already hit the printing press ;-/

[10ClarionSt]

Glasses moving on their own accord? Not just glasses nailit, if you live near a Cuadrilla fracking site. Earthmoving for sure!

[ToraToraTora]

people have a tendency to want to believe all manner of BS. That's why the wonderful world of total bowl0cks exists. The James Randi foundation offered $1m to anyone who could produce any sort of psychic phenomenon, even water divining etc under lab conditions. He never had to give it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_Challenge

[Old_Geezer]

As judge and jury I don't suppose he ever will.

[ToraToraTora]

he's not judge and jury, they devise a test that is agree by both sides and agree the criteria to pass it. eg The Horizon program did a test of homeopathy and of course confirmed it's total bowlocks. This was a properly sanctioned double blind test used by science. He did a similar thing with a water diviner. Most of these charlatans know they are charlatans making a living off the gullible but some are so deluded that they think they do have special powers.

[naomi24]

The James Randi challenge is no more. It's been terminated.

The inexplicable happens. That reality may not be everyone’s reality – but it’s a reality nonetheless - so yes, in some ways we are all experiencing different realities.