Reality
What is the nature of reality?Descartes wanted to know
what is absolute, what can be known beyond any sort of doubt. Through
meditation and logical reasoning, Descartes concluded "Cogito Ergo Sum"
or "I think, therefore I am." Of course this is impossible to deny, if
you can think, then you or your thoughts must exist. However everything
that we percieve about the outside world may or may not be accurate.
Our perception of reality is just that, perception. Not fact. Humans
only have a finite amount of senses, and only 5 senses to percieve the
universe with. There are only 5 different types of information we can
obtain from the universe. How it feels physically, how it tastes,
smells, sounds, or looks like. That is it, five senses. It is entirely
possible that the universe around us has more information to it than
the 5 types of information that we normally percieve. What would a
different type of information be? It is hard to imagine, because we
only have five senses we don't know what another sense would even be.
Perhaps this is why the top physicists in the world still cannot form a
unified theory of the universe that explains why the universe behaves
the way it does. Maybe so-called dark matter emits information beyond
our five senses. Although we have many scientific machines to amplify
our normal senses, that is all they are extensions of our 5 senses.